Armida is an operatic dramma per musica by Antonio Salieri in three acts, set to a libretto by Marco Coltellini. The plot is based on the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. Lully, Hande
Antonio Salieri, engraving by Carl Traugott Riedel, 1802
Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the
Portrait of Salieri, 1815, by Joseph Willibrord Mähler