"Nabucco" (Milan, 1842), with a libretto by Temistocle Solera (1815-1878) after Antonio Cortese's 1836 ballet version of a play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (1806-1871) and Francis Cornu (1794-1848) that was in turn based on the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament