Italian opera "Dafne" by Jacopo Peri was the earliest composition considered opera, as understood today. Peri's works, however, did not arise out of a creative vacuum in the area of sung drama. An underlying prerequisite for the creation of opera proper was the practice of monody. Monody is the solo singing/setting of a dramatically conceived melody, designed to express the emotional content of the text it carries, which is accompanied by a relatively simple sequence of chords rather than other polyphonic parts. Italian composers began composing in this style late in the 16th century, and it grew in part from the long-standing
Jacopo Luppi Jacopo Luppi Jacopo Luppi (born 12 August 1992) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in Bologna, the capital of Emilia–Romagna region, Jacopo Luppi started his career at Bologna F.C. 1909. J.Luppi was in the Bologna U17 team for 2008–09 national student league ("Allievi"). Co-currently with Davide Luppi formally left the club in 2009 after a loan, Jacopo was a member of the reserve team from 2009 to 2011. However, he only made 16 appearances in the group stage of the "spring" reserve league. On 29 June 2011, one day before the closure of 2010–11 financial year,