Jacopo Ferretti in Rome in October 1821 for the preparation of the production of his "Zoraida di Granata", which became his first major success. Ferretti worked on revising Bartolomeo Merelli's libretto for the opera. Altogether, Ferretti wrote about 70 librettos, the majority of which were for operas presented in Rome. Notes Other sources Jacopo Ferretti Jacopo Ferretti (16 July 1784 – 7 March 1852) was an Italian writer, poet and opera librettist. His name is sometimes written as Giacomo Ferretti. He is most famous for having supplied the libretti for two operas composed by Rossini and for five operas composed by Donizetti.
Jacopo Gianninoto Jacopo Gianninoto Jacopo Gianninoto is an Italian lutenist, guitarist and composer living in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published a series of books of transcriptions of ancient music for Lute, Baroque guitar and Theorbo, adapted for classical guitar, contributing to the rediscovery of ancient Italian repertoire. His publishing work include a revision for guitar of the Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto per due Violini Leuto e Basso RV93", a transcription for guitar of the J.S. Bach's sonatas originally written for solo violin, works on Vincenzo Galilei (father of the scientist Galileo Galilei), Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, Francesco Corbetta, Johannes Matelart, Alessandro Piccinini, Francesco Spinacino,