Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, whose nickname means "the red-haired Florentine, " was born in 1494 in Florence, where he studied in Andrea del Sarto's studio.
After fresh pastries and a strong coffee, Luisa takes us to the Jacopo Foggini gallery to view the artist's distinctive 'creations of light' - luminescent sculptures made from colourful reflective material.
Roberto Scandiuzzi, a basso nobile who has made the 1881 role of the outraged father Jacopo Fiesco very much his own, was fascinated to see the earlier version staged, but would not wish to sing it because of the higher tessitura of the original scoring, and the less sympathetic emphasis of the characterisation.