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RossiRossi, Gian Vittorio wrote a number of works that are now lost. Among his sacred dramatic works was a play titled Tobia, which, according to Leone AllacciAllacci, Leone, was published in 1629 in Viterbo.1 Rossi’s unpublished sacred plays include Esau et Iacob, Christi Domini praesepis, Filius profusus ac perditus, and Susanna. His play Magdalena flens ad sepulchrum Christi, set to music by the composer Virgilio MazzocchiMazzocchi, Virgilio, was performed multiple times, including in a private performance before cardinals Francesco BarberiniBarberini, Francesco, Ippolito Aldobrandini, Roberto UbaldiniUbaldini, Roberto, and the Polish ambassador to Rome,2 but the text has not survived. Another musical performance consisted of a sacred play about Ignatius Loyola set to music by the composer Loreto VittoriVittori, Loreto (who appears as a character in Book Ten).3 Other lost short works are Vita Iuvenalis Ancinae Saluciarum Episcopi, Vita Sancti Isidori, Vita B[eati] Stanislae Kostka, Canonis missae interpretatio, De officio ac dignitate sacerdotis, Totius missae sacrificii explicatio, and Confessiones propriae, modeled after St. Augustine’s Confessions.4