Jacopo Peri eventually developed into recitative and aria. Peri and Corsi brought in the poet Ottavio Rinuccini to write a text, and the result, "Dafne", though nowadays thought to be a long way from anything the Greeks would have recognised, is seen as the first work in a new form, opera. Rinuccini and Peri next collaborated on "Euridice". This was first performed on 6 October 1600 at the Palazzo Pitti. Unlike "Dafne", it has survived to the present day (though it is hardly ever staged, and then only as an historical curio). The work made use of recitatives, a new development which
Jacopo Fo Jacopo Fo Jacopo Fo (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian writer-actor and director. He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Fo. His 1992 book "Lo Zen e l'arte di scopare" ("Zen and the Art of Fucking") sold more than 70,000 copies. It formed the basis of the 1994 monologue "Sesso? Grazie, tanto per gradire!" ("Sex? Thanks, Don't Mind If I Do!"), which Jacopo Fo worked on with his father and mother, featuring educational pieces on topics such as AIDS, contraception, sex education and sexual repression. The government of Silvio Berlusconi, recently risen to power, banned Italians