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 Facciolati Jacopo Facciolati Jacopo Facciolati (1682–1769) was an Italian lexicographer and philologist. He was born at Torreglia, in what is now the province of Padua (then in the Republic of Venice), in 1682. He was admitted to the seminary of Padua thanks to Cardinal Barberigo, who had formed a high opinion of the boy's talents. As professor of logic and regent of the schools, Facciolati became the leading academic of Padua university during a period of forty-five years. He published improved editions of several philological works, such as the "Thesaurus Ciceronianus" of Nizolius, and in 1719 he brought out a revised