Giuseppe Saggione

Giuseppe Fedeli, known by the sobriquet “Saggione,” is documented as a composer whose music circulated in early eighteenth-century Paris through engraved song collections that explicitly cultivate an Italianate flavour for French-language airs. In 1728 a book of airs françois dans le goût italien, sérieux et à boire, engraved by Louis-Hector Hue, appeared for sale in Paris and presents the composer as “Mr. Saggione Venitien”; the print is dedicated to “Madame la Duchesse” and is framed as a practical repertory