Jacopo Corsi

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Jacopo Corsi
Born	(1561-07-17)17 July 1561 Florence, Italy
Died	29 December 1601(1601-12-29) (aged 40) Florence, Italy
Spouses	Settimia Bandini Laura Corsini
Issue	Giulia Corsi (b. 1591) Settimia Corsi (b. 1597) Maria Corsi (b. 1599) Marquis Giovanni Corsi of Caiazzo (b. 1600) Lorenzo Corsi (b. 1601) Nun Alessandra Corsi (b. 1602)
House	Corsi
Father	Giovanni Corsi
Mother	Alessandra Della Gherardesca
Religion	Catholic
Occupation	Patron, Musician, Poet, Dramatist, Composer, Philanthropist

Jacopo Corsi (17 July 1561 – 29 December 1602) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicis. His best-known work is Dafne (1597/98), whose score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri. Six fragments of the score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, has survived intact. Despite priority quibbles at the time, Dafne is generally accepted as the first opera.