Giacomo Puccini Because only three "verismo" works by Puccini continue to appear regularly on stage (the aforementioned "Cavalleria rusticana", "Pagliacci", and "Andrea Chénier"), Puccini's contribution has had lasting significance to the genre. Both during his lifetime and in posterity, Puccini's success outstripped other Italian opera composers of his time, and he has been matched in this regard by only a handful of composers in the entire history of opera. Eleven of Puccini's operas are numbered among the 200 most-performed operas (worldwide, by composers of any nationality, as surveyed by Operabase). Three of his works ("La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly") rank among
Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi Giacomo di Grassi was an Italian fencing master who wrote the fencing treatise "Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'Arme, si da offesa come da difesa" in 1570..The text was later translated into English and published again in 1594, as " Di Grassi, His True Arte of Defence". The translation of Di Grassi was one of the three premiere fencing texts known from Elizabethan England. His main teachings were that weapons of the same length are used similarly, the thrust is preferred to all other attacks, as well as specifics on how to thrust and handle specific weapons. Digrassi