Chi soffre, speri

L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri ('Egisto, or Who suffers may hope') is a 1637 commedia musicale, a type of early Italian comic opera, in a prologue and three acts with music by Virgilio Mazzocchi (and, in its 1639 revision, Marco Marazzoli) and a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (the future Pope Clement IX), based on Giovanni Boccaccio's Il decamerone (Fifth day, ninth tale).

Not to be confused with L'Egisto, opera by Francesco Cavalli.
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