Michelangelo Torcigliani

Michelangelo Torcigliani (March 1618 – 25 November 1679) was an Italian Baroque poet from Lucca.

Biography
Torcigliani is considered by critics the librettist of Monteverdi’s lost opera Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia (The Marriage of Aeneas to Lavinia). The work was performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1641. Torcigliani is the dedicatee of the opera L'Ulisse errante (1644) written by the Giacomo Badoaro. He was a member of the Venetian intellectual circle, the Accademia degli Incogniti, and a friend and correspondent of several of the most distinguished Italian men of letters of the day, including Agostino Mascardi, Angelico Aprosio, Francesco Pona, Giovanni Francesco Loredan and Guido Casoni. Leonardo Quirini dedicated to him his poetry collection I vezzi d'Erato. Torcigliani died in Venice, November 25, 1679.

Works
After his death Torcigliani's works appeared under the title Echo Cortese, at Lucca, published by the Marescandoli, in three parts, the first in 1680, the second in 1681, and the third in 1683. His translations into Italian verse of the Song of Songs (in the second vol.), of the Attis of Catullus, of a certain number of Anacreontea, and of several Greek epigrams are particularly praiseworthy.