juditha vivaldi's Sacrum Militare Oratorum

Caravaggio, c. 1598–1599 or 1602
​Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie. Judith is triumphant over the barbarians of Holofernes. The story is  about a woman slaying a man, which is juicy.

Fire-engine-haired Vivaldi wrote the Oratorio in 1716. Antonio was a Catholic priest, but at his own request, he was dispensed from his priestly faculties. “An angina pectoris from which he had suffered since birth must have sometimes manifested itself so violently that several times he had to leave the altar in the middle of Mass.” https://www.antoniovivaldi.net/2022/06/antonio-vivaldi-biography.html​

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What an exciting adventure his music is.
I am riding a horse, being chased, escaping, slowing to let the horse eat some grass, and chased again. We jump over a creek, and I fall off, onto a sandy bend, and there, hands begin twisting the noose tight, tighter, tighter. Which one of the ladies is going to kill me? “Vivat in pace,” I yell!
​Vivaldi taught violin to girls. If you saw their faces day in and day out and heard their mistakes, would you not have had the urge to strangle an occasional girl or two there in the classroom? I thought so.
They are singing in Latin. Haha. You thought it was a dead language. You will hear the Latin word video. It means I see.