Jacopo Peri went between the arias and choruses and served to move the action along. Peri produced a number of other operas, often in collaboration with other composers (such as "La Flora" with Marco da Gagliano), and also wrote a number of other pieces for various court entertainments. Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi. Peri's influence on those later composers, however, was large. Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August
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