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.
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