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Italian aria written by Geminiano Giacomelli. It is used in Vivaldi’s pasticcio, Bajazet. Performed by beautiful Cecilia Bartoli ( mezzo soprano ). The music for this aria was not composed by Vivaldi. The originating work is Geminiano Giacomelli’s opera Merope (1734), composed before Vivaldi’s pasticcio Bajazet. It was a common practice during Vivaldi’s time to compile arias from other composers with one own’s work for an opera. Vivaldi himself composed the arias for the good characters and mostly used e