La serva padrona
The form began to flourish in Naples with Alessandro Scarlatti's "Il trionfo dell'onore" (1718). At first written in Neapolitan dialect, these works became "Italianized" with the operas of Scarlatti, Pergolesi ("La serva padrona", 1733), Galuppi ("Il filosofo di campagna", 1754), Piccinni ("La Cecchina", 1760), Paisiello ("Nina", 1789), Cimarosa ("Il matrimonio segreto", 1792), and then the great comic operas of Mozart and, later, Rossini and Donizetti.