Accademia degli Incogniti
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The Accademia degli Incogniti, also called the Loredanian Academy, was a learned society of freethinking intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural and political life o
Coat of arms of the Accademia, featuring the crest of the Loredan family.
Giovanni Francesco Loredan, Venetian senator and writer, and founder of the Accademia.
Cesare Cremonini, whose teachings inspired the Accademia degli Incogniti.
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is an opera consisting of a prologue and five acts, set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro. The opera was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni
The composer c. 1640
18th-century edition of Homer's Odyssey, the source of the libretto for Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Ulisse lies on the shore, as the Faeci ship is turned to stone by Neptune; an illustration of how this dramatic effect could be realised in the opera house.
A depiction (circa 330 BC) of the slaying of Penelope's suitors