Ottavio Rinuccini

Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1563[1] – 28 March 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, Dafne, in 1597, he became the first opera librettist.

Rinuccini wrote texts for some of the intermedi at the performance of La pellegrina at the wedding of Ferdinand I de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine in May 1589.

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