↑ "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 ) use "Gioachino".
