\uabOgnun del suo saper par che s\u2019appaghi\ubb: Busenello and the Loves of Apollo and Daphne in Myth, Literature and the Visual Arts

Gli amori d\u2019Apollo e di Dafne marked the first collaboration between the Venetian lawyer Giovan Francesco Busenello (1598-1659) and Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), who staged all his librettos \u2013 La Didone (1641), La prosperit\ue0 infelice di Giulio Cesare dittatore (1646) and La Statira (1656) \u2013 with the exception of L\u2019Incoronazione di Poppea (by Claudio Monteverdi and perhaps by other composers) and of Il viaggio d\u2019Enea all\u2019inferno (the libretto remained in manuscript and was recently published in a modern edition