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
Giovanni Jacopo Spada neither "sports of Nature" nor the products of the biblical Great Deluge, but "antediluvian". He was listed among the subscribers to the corpus of Latin inscriptions assembled at Verona (and other north Italian locations), the "Museum Veronense hoc est antiquarum inscriptionum atque anaglyphorum..." (Verona 1749). Though Spada is barely remembered today, he was commemorated in the snail "Candidula spadae", described by Pietro Calcara in 1845. Giovanni Jacopo Spada Giovanni Jacopo Spada (1680 - 1774) was an Italian naturalist and pioneering geologist, born in Verona, who served for many years as archipresbyter at Graz in Styria. He is known for the