 Following Romani's recovery, the delivery of the libretto arrived piecemeal, but Bellini set to work again, albeit that progress was slow.By 7 January 1829, with Romani having recovered and set off for Venice to fulfill another contract, the composer was "almost up to the 2nd act".Filippo Cicconetti, in his 1859 biography, gives an account of Bellini's working methods, explaining how he set texts to music always with the words in front of him in order to see how inspired to compose he might become.