Jacopo Peri went between the arias and choruses and served to move the action along. Peri produced a number of other operas, often in collaboration with other composers (such as "La Flora" with Marco da Gagliano), and also wrote a number of other pieces for various court entertainments. Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi. Peri's influence on those later composers, however, was large. Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August
Giovanni Peri Giovanni Peri Giovanni Peri (born September 19, 1969 in Perugia, Italy) is an Italian-born American economist who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Temporary Migration Cluster. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal "Regional Science and Urban Economics". He is known for his research on the economic impact of immigration to the United States. For example, he has been critical of the work of George Borjas, which has concluded that immigration has negative economic