Donizetti was commissioned by Jules Janin of the Théâtre-Italien, who simply asked for a new opera buffa that would be specifically written for a few singers. Based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli, Donizetti prepared and wrote a huge deal of the libretto himself. Giovanni Ruffini was brought in as a librettist, however, he felt as though Donizetti had written so much of it that Ruffini did not want his name put on the libretto. Donizetti based the characters off of the traditional commedia dell’arte characters; Pasquale as Pantalone, Ernesto as Pierrot, Malatesta as Scapino, and Norina as
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