Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August 1633), known under the pseudonym Il Zazzerino, I was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, "Dafne" (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, "Euridice" (1600). Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He
Jacopo Gaddi Jacopo Gaddi Jacopo Gaddi (c. 1600 - after 1658) was an Italian Neolatin and Italian writer from Florence. Born to a wealthy noble family, Gaddi was well known in Florence and was in correspondence with numerous figures outside his birthplace, including cardinals of the Roman "curia", the painter Cristofano Allori, and, during his sojourn in Florence, English writer John Milton. In 1628 he published a volume of Latin "Poemata". Between 1636 and 1637 he published several works in Italian and Latin, including "Elogia", "Adlocutiones", and some short historical essays and poems. In two folios in 1648 and 1649 Gaddi published