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
Jacopo da Leona I lament me of you"). Jacopo da Leona Jacopo da Leona, also spelt Iacopo (died 1277) was a medieval Italian jurist and poet. Beginning his career as a notary, he became a nobleman's secretary and later a judge. Sixty of his sonnets survive. Beginning life as Jacopo del Tancredo in the village of Levane, Arezzo, he took his later surname from the Castle of Leona ("Castello di Leona"), on which his village depended. Here Jacopo began to learn the work of a notary, under the patronage of the family of Ubertini of Arezzo, and one of the Ubertini, Ranieri, employed