Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August 1633), known under the pseudonym Il Zazzerino, I was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, "Dafne" (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, "Euridice" (1600). Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He
Giovanni Peri effects. 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