Intertestualità e parodia nella commedia per musica napoletana: il caso dell’"Armida immaginaria" di Giuseppe Palomba e Domenico Cimarosa (1777)

"Armida immaginaria" by Palomba and Cimarosa is tangled in a thick network of intertextual connections. Many are its references, partly known, to Tasso’s Gerusalemme. In addition, scene I.10 turns out to be an effective literary and musical parody of scene II.10 of "Armida abbandonata" by De Rogati and Jommelli. That imitation is the outcome of a strategy shared between the librettist, the composer and the singer (the buffo Antonio Casaccia) and implies the deliberate connivance of the audience, whose reactions may be partly retraced by comparison with similar episodes.