Euridice (Peri) with his bride. "Scene 5" Orfeo and Euridice return from the underworld and rejoice. It should be noted that various chorus names are as they appear in the original Italian score. Pastore, Ninfa/Ninfe, and Deita D'Inferno refer to choruses of shepherds, nymphs and Deities of Hell respectively. Euridice (Peri) Euridice (also Erudice or Eurydice) is an opera by Jacopo Peri, with additional music by Giulio Caccini. It is the earliest surviving opera, Peri's earlier "Dafne" being lost. (Caccini wrote his own "Euridice" even as he supplied music to Peri's opera, published this version before Peri's was performed, in 1600, and
The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis) is an epistolary novel written by Ugo Foscolo between 1798 and 1802 and first published later that year. It is considered the first such work in Italian literature. A second edition, with major changes, was published by Foscolo in Zurich (1816) and a third one in London (1817). The model was Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (1774). Another influence is Rousseau's "Julie, or the New Heloise" (1761). Foscolo's work was also inspired by the political events that occurred in Northern Italy