Jacopo Foroni Jacopo Foroni Jacopo Foroni (26 July 1825 — Stockholm, 8 September 1858) was an Italian opera composer and conductor who spent most of his working life in Sweden. Foroni was born in Valeggio sul Mincio, near Verona, the son of the composer and conductor Domenico Foroni. After studies with his father and Alberto Mazzucato in Milan, Foroni became involved in the Five Days of Milan revolt against the Austrians in March 1848. With the failure of that movement, along with many others, he left Italy and worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland with Italian touring opera companies
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