Caterino Mazzolà

Caterino Mazzolà (born at Longarone on 18 January 1745; died in Venice on 16 July 1806) was an Italian poet and librettist. Around 1767, he and his family moved to Venice, but after a few years he moved to Treviso. In 1780, he married, having already met Giacomo Casanova and Lorenzo Da Ponte and started work as a librettist.

After 1780, Joseph Schuster helped Mazzolà to be appointed as Dresden's court poet; he held the post until 1796. During this period, he worked with Da Ponte and met Antonio Salieri, who suggested that Mazzolà could write the libretto for an opera buffa entitled "La scuola de' gelosi" which premiered in 1778.