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
Giovanni Peri Giovanni Peri Giovanni Peri (born September 19, 1969 in Perugia, Italy) is an Italian-born American economist who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Temporary Migration Cluster. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal "Regional Science and Urban Economics". He is known for his research on the economic impact of immigration to the United States. For example, he has been critical of the work of George Borjas, which has concluded that immigration has negative economic