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Who wrote the libretto for Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo?

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Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi — Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi, oil painting by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630; in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria.

The libretto for Claudio Monteverdi’s La favola d’Orfeo was written by Alessandro Striggio the Younger.1