 For Bellini, his opera "was not unworthy of her sisters".There then began what Herbert Weinstock describes, in over twelve pages of text which include the long letters written by both sides in the dispute, "the journalistic storm over "Beatrice di Tenda" [which evolved] into the bitterest, most convoluted, and—at our distance from it—most amusing polemic in the annals of early nineteenth-century Italian opera".A back-and-forth series of letters in the Venetian daily, the "Gazzetta privilegiata di Venezia" began, the first of which complained about the delay in the production.