“ He studied the theory of music under the violinist Ghiretti, a pupil of the Conservatoire della Pieta de’ Turchini at Naples. His first opera, La Locanda de’ vagebondi. was published when he was only sixteen; others rapidly followed, and his name was soon famous throughout Italy. In 1707 he went to Vienna, where his wife, the singer Riccardi, had obtained an engagement at the opera ”