↑ "Though "Gioacchino" is the familiar spelling of the name, Rossini himself more usually adopted the spelling "Gioachino". This is now the accepted spelling of his first name" - Richard Osborne: Rossini (The Master Musicians series), London: Dent, 1986, p. xv. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), edited by Stanley Sadie, vol 4, pp 56-67 and elsewhere, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and most Rossini scholars (including the Fondazione G. Rossini and the Center for Italian Opera Studies at the University of Chicago Lưu trữ 2013-09-24 tại Wayback Machine) use "Gioachino".
