¹ Gossett, Philip, Divas and Scholars (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006): 369.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

² Ibid., 246.

³ Osborne, Richard, Rossini: His Life and Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 227. For examples of quotations from Il barbiere di SivigliaCrossRefGoogle Scholar, see Rossini, Gioachino, La gazzetta, ed. Gossett, Philip and Scipioni, Fabrizio (Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 2002): XXXIIIGoogle Scholar.

⁴ , Osborne, Rossini, 228.Google Scholar

⁵ , Gossett, Divas, 246.Google Scholar

⁶ Ibid., 520.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ Ibid., 369.

⁹ Ibid., 370.

¹⁰ Ibid., 247.

¹¹ The title of the first version of Goldoni's play is Les deux italiennes. Rossini was most likely familiar with the 1763 Venetian edition, which enjoyed great success at its premiere at Venice's Teatro San Luca and was performed widely in theatres throughout Venice and Italy (Rossini, La gazzetta, XXIV).

¹² Baldini, Gabriele, ‘A Note on Goldoni and His Comedies’, in Goldoni: Three Comedies, ed. Baldini, Gabriele (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961): xii.Google Scholar

¹³ Ibid., xiii.