Cesare della Valle

Cesare della Valle (1776/77 - 1860) was Duke of Ventignano. He is best known today as a playwright and librettist.

He wrote the libretto to Giacomo Rossini's opera Maometto II, from his own drama tragedy Anna Erizo (1820).[1] Both were based on real-life Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II who took Negroponte from the Venetians in 1470.

That opera was completely reworked a few years later into Le siège de Corinthe (1826), but based on the same characters and story created by della Valle.[2]

References
  1. https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.660149-51&catNum=660149&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/arts/music/a-rossini-masterwork-ahead-of-its-time.html
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