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The
librettist Jacopo Ferretti came from a middle class Roman family. His father
taught him music and literature, and he became fluent in Latin, Greek, French
and English, as well as his native Italian. Jacopo started to write poetry as
a boy. He later became the holder of the Papal tobacco monopoly but wrote in
his spare time: odes for funerals and weddings, love letters, welcoming speeches,
etc. He was the manager of the Rome opera and wrote over seventy libretti; La
Cenerentola (Cinderella) was his first success and the best known
of all. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, "The versatility
and spontaneity of his writing mark him out as one of the very few true poets
of the Italian romantic opera".
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