Antonio Palomba (20 December 1705 – 1769) was an Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist, and music educator. He also worked as a notary. Born in Naples, he became a teacher of the harpsichord at the Teatro della Pace in 1749. Most of his more than 50 opera libretti were comedic works written for composers of the Neapolitan school. He also wrote some works for performance in Florence, Bologna and abroad. He died in Naples in 1769; one of the victims of a fever epidemic in the city. Many of his libretti were set more than once to music, and composers continued to use his libretti up into the 1830s.

There is some confusion about whether these libretti were written by Antonio Palomba or his nephew Giuseppe Palomba, also a librettist, who died in 1825. Articles on both men are available on it.wikipedia.org.

Operas using libretti by Palomba

Sources

• Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Antonio Palomba". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
• Cocchi, Gioacchino at operone.de
• Antonio Palomba at operone.de