Aureliano in Palmira is an
operatic dramma serio in two acts written by
Gioachino Rossini to an
Italian libretto in which the librettist was credited only by the initials "G. F. R." The libretto has generally been attributed to
Giuseppe Felice Romani, but sometimes to the otherwise unknown Gian Francesco Romanelli. It has been suggested that the latter name may have resulted from a confusion of Romani with
Luigi Romanelli, La Scala's house poet prior to Romani's appointment to the post.