From evounds ‘of reflection, the Opera Seria; to which he had paid the tribute of - his youth, accompanied by thé most brilliant suc“cess, in Italy, disgusted him ; and he began to reflect radically upon the conditions .of lyric I al tragedy, triéd to bring them ‘into application in his Orfeo, and developed them in writing in the {L preface to his Aleeste, which he dedicated to the ii grand* duke of Tuscany.