Works
- Opera libretti:
- La Scuola de' gelosi (1783) – composer Antonio Salieri
- Il ricco d'un giorno (1784) – composer Antonio Salieri
- Il burbero di buon cuore (1786, from the play by Carlo Goldoni) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
- Il Demogorgone ovvero Il filosofo confuso (1786) – composer Vincenzo Righini
- Il finto cieco (1786) – composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga
- Le nozze di Figaro (1786, from the play by Pierre Beaumarchais) – composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Una cosa rara (1786, from the comedy La Luna della Sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
- Gli equivoci (1786) – composer Stephen Storace
- L'arbore di Diana (1787) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
- Il dissoluto punito o sia Il Don Giovanni (1787, from the opera by Giuseppe Gazzaniga) – composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Axur, re d'Ormus (1787/88, translation of the libretto Tarare by Pierre Beaumarchais) – composer Antonio Salieri
- Il Talismano (1788, from Carlo Goldoni) – composer Antonio Salieri
- Il Bertoldo (1788) – composer Antonio Brunetti (it)
- L'Ape musicale (1789) – Pasticcio of works by various composers
- Il Pastor fido (1789, from the pastoral by Giovanni Battista Guarini) – composer Antonio Salieri
- La cifra (1789) – composer Antonio Salieri
- Così fan tutte (1789/90) – composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- La Caffettiera bizzarra (1790) – composer Joseph Weigl
- La Capricciosa corretta (1795) – composer Vicente Martín y Soler
- Antigona (1796) – composer Francesco Bianchi
- Il consiglio imprudente (1796) – composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
- Merope (1797) – composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
- Cinna (1798) – composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
- Armida (1802) – composer Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi
- La grotta di Calipso (1803) – composer Peter Winter
- Il trionfo dell'amor fraterno (1804) – composer Peter Winter
- Il ratto di Proserpina (1804) – composer Peter Winter
- Cantatas and oratorios:
- Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia (1785) – composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri and "Cornetti" (lost)
- Il Davidde (1791) – Pasticcio from works by various composers
- Hymn to America – composer Antonio Bagioli
- Poetry:
- Letter of complaint in blank verse to Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 18 sonnets in commemoration of his wife (1832)
- Other
- translations from English into Italian.
- several books of elementary instruction in the Italian language
- Memorie (autobiography)
- History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici (2 vols., 1833).
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