Handel's original manuscript for the cantata has not survived, but a copy in the Santini Collection suggests that the work originated under the patronage of Ruspoli. The work can be dated to the spring or summer of 1707, and Handel reused aspects of the first aria in his opera Rodrigo in the same year.
| Date of composition | 1707 in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy |
| Premiered | September 1707 in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy |
| Type | Secular Cantata |
| Catalogue | HWV 144 |
| Spoken language | Italian |
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Georg Friedrich Haendel: O lucenti, o sereni occhi, HWV 144 Georg Friedrich Händel: O lucenti, o sereni occhi, HWV 144 Georg Friedrich Händel: O lucenti, o sereni occhi, HWV 144 |