Which work was created first, Manon Lescaut or La liberazione di Ruggiero?
Manon Lescaut:  Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of "Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité" ("Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality"). La liberazione di Ruggiero: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina ("En." La liberazione di Ruggiero:  "The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina") is a comic opera in four scenes by Francesca Caccini, first performed 3 February 1625 at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale in Florence, with a libretto by Ferdinando Saracinelli, based on Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso".
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