Francesco Vanneschi
Francesco Vanneschi was an Italian opera manager, director and librettist; his death date is usually given as 1759, but he was still alive and working at the King's Theatre in April 1760. He was known as having been active as a librettist in Florence in 1732 when he wrote Enrico and in 1741 was appointed as a director and librettist for the King's Theatre in London.
His other opera librettos include: Galuppi's Polidoro and Scipione in Cartagine, St. Germain's La incosrtanza delusa and Gluck's La caduta dei giganti. Gluck's opera, a commission by Lord Middlesex, premiered at the King's Theatre in 1746.
