he arrived in Paris he renewed his acquaintance with Gioachino Rossini and took on a few libretto commissions to supplement his main income as a tutor of Italian." Of these, he became best known for the libretto he prepared for Bellini's I puritani, written between 1834 and its premiere in January 1835. In Paris from 1832, he contributed to L'Esule, the newspaper of the Italian exiles printed in Paris and he is known to have been a part of one of the most important salons of these years, which became a meeting place for Italian revolutionaries such as Vincenzo Gioberti, Niccolò Tommaseo, and Camillo Cavour. It was run by the exile Princess Belgiojoso who "was by far the most overtly political of the salonnières. Like Carlo Pepoli, she lived in Paris under duress", states Smart. Bellini quickly became involved with the princess' salon after his arrival in 1833 and it is there that he met Pepoli. Along with the major operatic work, Smart notes that Pepoli "picked up" additional work including writing the poetry for two sets of song cycles, one each for Rossini (in 1835) and for the Italian composer Saverio Mercadante in 1836: Smart sees "the link between the two collections [as being] revealed first of all by their titles: Rossini’s rather generic Soirées musicales becomes in Mercadante’s hands the more evocative Soirées italiennes". In addition, the Rossini set is supplemented by four settings of texts by Metastasio. German composer Georgina Schubert (1840-1878) also used Pepoli’s text for her lieder “Barcarole.” References Notes Cited sources Senato della Repubblica Italiana. Pepoli, Carlo. Retrieved 21 January 2013 . Smart, Mary Ann, "Parlor Games: Italian Music and Italian Politics in the Parisian Salon", 19th-Century Music, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Summer 2010), University of California. pp. 39–60, on jstor.org, by subscription or payment Other sources Körner, Axel, "Pepoli, Carlo", in: 'Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-pepoli_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Enciclopedia Treccani. "Pepoli, Carlo, conte". Retrieved 21 January 2013 . Freitag, Sabine (2003). Exiles from European Revolutions: Refugees in Mid-Victorian England. Berghahn Books. Gavelli, Mirtide (2011). Carlo Pepoli, Bologna, 1796 - Bologna, 1881. Certosa di Bologna. Retrieved 21 January 2013 . Körner, Axel (2009). Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism. Taylor & Francis. Leopardi, Giacomo (1923). The Poems of Leopardi (Introduction, English translation and notes by Geoffrey Bickersteth). Cambridge University Press. Osborne, Richard (2007). Rossini. Oxford University Press. Weinstock, Herbert (1971), Bellini: His