 Sografi's libretto was also used for an opera by Bonifacio Asioli (1796).This was Donizetti's first opera, written in six days between 25 September and 1 October 1816 when the composer was 19 and a student at the Bologna Academy, a position acquired for him with the help of his teacher in Bergamo, Johann Simon Mayr and where his "gift for spontaneous composition flowered".It has been noted that although the comedy is "musically slender, the score, nevertheless, reveals the fledgling composer's flair for melody".