imitated this comedy in their plays. A Paduan poet serving at the Dresden Court, Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, wrote a libretto based on the same story for the comic opera Calandro by Giovanni Alberto Ristori. It was first staged in 1726 at the castle of Pilnitz near Dresden, and in 1731 in Moscow it was the first ever opera performed in Russia. There were also the operas by: Antonio Sacchini, L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino (24 November 1778 London) Johann Georg Schürer, Calandro (20 January 1748 Dresden) Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Il Calandrino (1771 Venice) See also Stufetta del cardinal Bibbiena Plautus Menaechmi Calandro Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino Summary of Decameron tales References Sources Barbiche, B.; S. de Dainville Barbiche (1985). "Les lègats "a latere" en France," in: Archivium historiae pontificiae, 22 (1985), pp. 93–165 at p. 50. Cardella, Lorenzo (1793). Memorie storiche de' cardinali della santa romana. Tomo quarto (Roma: Pagliarini 1793), pp. 7–9. Gaeta, F. (1969. "Il Bibbiena diplomatico," Rinascimento, serie 2, 9 (1969), pp. 69–94. Santelli, A. (1931). Il cardinal Bibbiena, Bologna 1931. (panegyric) External links Patrizi, Giorgio (1992), "Dovizi, Bernardo, detto il Bibbiena," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 41 (1992) Retrieved: 2017-01-13. Catholic Encyclopedia 1470 births 1520 deaths People from the Province of Arezzo Italian dramatists and playwrights 16th-century Italian cardinals Patrons of literature Italian male dramatists and playwrights Captains General of the Church