Tito Manlio was performed for the fi rst time in Mantua as second work of the Carnival season of winter 1719.Vivaldi set the libretto of La fi da ninfa, a dramma per musica in three acts by Scipione Maffei, with a view to its use for the inauguration of the new theatre of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, which took place on 6 January 1732, during theCarnival season, elaborate stage sets being provided by Francesco Bibbiena.The critical edition is based on the collation of the two complete ma