Verdi's predecessors who influenced his music were Rossini, Bellini, Giacomo Meyerbeer and, most notably, Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante.

* September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer ( d. 1870 )

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante ( baptised 17 September 179517 December 1870 ) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas.

), " Saverio Mercadante ( 1795-1870 )" Elena da Feltre ", in the booklet accompanying the 1997 recording of that opera at the Wexford Festival released on the Marco Polo label.

* De Napoli, Giuseppe, La triade melodrammatica altamurana: Giacomo Tritto, Vincenzo Lavigna, Saverio Mercadante, Milan, 1952

* Kaufman, Thomas G., " Catalogue of the Operas of Mercadante-Chronology of Performances with Casts ", Bollettino dell Associazione Civica " Saverio Mercadante " N. 1 ; Altamura, 1996

* Palermo, Santo, Saverio Mercadante: biografia, epistolario, Fasano, 1985

Saggi su Saverio Mercadante, Cassano Murge, 1992

* Petrucci, Gianluca, Saverio Mercadante l ' ultimo dei cinque re, Rome, 1995

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A portrait of Mozart, aged 14, in Verona, 1770, by Saverio dalla Rosa ( 1745 – 1821 )

Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy.

* Saverio Mercadante's 1833 opera Il Conte d ' Essex with libretto by Felice Romani

* 1823: Didone abbandonata by Saverio Mercadante

The subject was well known and had been used by other composers, including Daniel Auber, for his 1833 opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué and later by Saverio Mercadante for his Il reggente in 1843.

Through the use of jump cuts between melodramatic scenes with Buffy, and for instance, informant Willy the Barkeeper ( Saverio Guerra ) to Xander and a gang of zombies in a drunken car journey, Xander is used as a vehicle to point out the ways in which Buffy ordinarily avoids being " over the top " by integrating Xander ( as the show's source of humour ) into the main narrative rather than separating the two.

* Armida abbandonata ( Naples, 1770 ) – libretto by Francesco Saverio de ' Rogati

In Cilento, in 1828, an insurrection of Philadelphia, who called for the restoration of the Neapolitan Constitution of 1820, was fiercely repressed by the director of the Bourbon police Francesco Saverio Del Carretto: among the interventions we remember the destruction of the village of Wood.

** Written by Dom Thrupp, Aidan Love, Julie Tulley and Charissa Saverio

The libretto was to be used twice more, first by Saverio Mercadante for Il reggente, with the action transferred to Scotland, and, next by Giuseppe Verdi, as Un ballo in maschera.

* Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.

She has also starred in the musicals directed by Saverio Marconi The Sound of Music ( playing the role of Maria von Trapp ) and Cabaret ( playing the role of Sally Bowles ); both had great success in Italy.

The opera Elisa e Claudio was written for him in 1821 by Saverio Mercadante and his position was assured.

Bresci was captured and put on trial, where he was defended by the anarchist lawyer Francesco Saverio Merlino.

His book Synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain was dedicated to Marie Jules César Savigny, Georges Cuvier, and Giuseppe Saverio Poli and was posthumously completed by John Edward Gray.

The protocol was signed by Clemenceau for France, by David Lloyd George for Britain, by Francesco Saverio Nitti for Italy, and by Keishiro Matsui for Japan ; and, of course, by the two German delegates.

The plot of Roberto Devereux was hardly original, mainly derived from Felice Romani's libretto Il Conte d ' Essex of 1833, originally set by Saverio Mercadante.

** Saverio Mercadante, Medea, revision by Salvadore Cammarano ( 1851 )