[1] His pastoral play Il Filarmindo was performed in 1605, at the Casa Zoppio in Bologna where the accademia had its own private theatre.
[1] Following the lead of Federico Asinari and Pomponio Torelli, Campeggi tried to elevate Italian tragedy to the plane of Seneca and ancient Greek theatre.
[3] Also worthy of mention is the one hundred octaves poem L’Italia consolata [Italy comforted], composed by Campeggi in the occasion of the wedding between Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and Christine of France.
[1] Campeggi was highly praised by Marino, who, in a letter to Claudio Achillini published in the preface of his poetry collection La Sampogna, called him “one of the freest quills that soar in our days in the Italian ether” (una delle più franche penne, che oggidì volino per lo cielo italiano).
[6] Campeggi's most important work is his sixteen-cantos poem Le Lagrime di Maria Vergine (1617), one of the most popular religious epics of the day.