Vincenzo Grimani

Vincenzo Grimani (15 May 1652 or 26 May 1655 – 26 September 1710) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and opera librettist.

He is best remembered for having supplied the libretto for George Frideric Handel's early operatic success Agrippina, although he also supplied libretti for Elmiro re di Corinto, by Carlo Pallavicino, and Orazio by G. F. Tosi.

His libretti are markedly different from the later moralizing tone of Metastasio and Apostolo Zeno, whose ideas came to dictate opera seria.

His portrayal of the Emperor Claudius has been perceived as an oblique attack on the character of Pope Clement XI.

Grimani frequently clashed with Clement in the course of protecting the interests of the Habsburgs at the Vatican.