 The Albergatis were one of the most eminent families of the Bolognese nobility, and Count Pirro Albergati himself was ambassador, confident of Leopold I, Emperor of Austria, member of the city Council of Elders, and "gonfaloniere" of the city of Bologna.From 1685 he became a member of the confraternity "Santa Maria della Morte" for whom he composed most of his 17 oratorios.From 1728 Albergati also held the mainly honorary post of "maestro di cappella" in Puiano near Urbino in the last years of his life.