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 Coppi Jacopo Coppi Jacopo Coppi, also called "Giacomo Coppi" or "'Jacopo del Meglio'" ("the Best") (Peretola, 1523 - 1591) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Florence and Rome in a Mannerist style. Other sources call him Giacinto Coppi. He was one of the team of painters under Giorgio Vasari engaged in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. For the room, he depicted the "Invention of Gunpowder" and the "Family of Darius before Alexander the Great". Some of the sources dispute the identity of Coppi and Meglio. He is said to have