Insect From Shaggai - Massa Di Requiem Per Shuggay

In 1768, the enigmatic composer Benevento Chieti Bordighera wrote an opera about the Shan's trek, the frightful but brilliant Massa di Requiem per Shuggay ("Requiem for Shaggai"). The final act of the opera chronicles the arrival of the Shan on Earth in the 17th century and the plight of the monstrous and godlike insect-beast Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg, another former inhabitant of the dead world Shaggai. In 1769, Pope Clement XIII banned the piece, and one year later his successor imprisoned Bordighera, branding him a heretic. A year later, Bordighera was put to death. All copies of the morose libretto were ordered destroyed, although one or two survived.