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It was discovered that a madrigal brought out by him was pirated from another Italian composer; whereupon Bononcini left England, humiliated to the dust, and finally died obscure and alone, the victim of a charlatan alchemist, who succeeded in obtaining all his savings. Another powerful rival of Handel was Porpora, or, as Handel used to call him, "old Borbora."
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