[1] Other suggested sources include L'homme noir (1820) by Eugene Scribe and Jean-Henri Dupin[2] and Le coiffeur et le perruquier (1824) by Scribe, Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères and Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent.

[3] The opera was premiered on 18 June 1831 at the Teatro del Fondo, Naples, and there was only one further performance.

The words and music of the arias and ensembles have survived, but the spoken dialogue has been lost.

In November 2000, staged performances took place in Rovigo with dialogue re-created by Michelangelo Zurletti from the Scribe plays on which the opera may have been based.

[3] Of this work Ashbrook writes: He also points out that Filidoro's canzonetta is a parody of the Gondolier's song from Rossini's Otello.