When Mercadante returned to Italy after living in Spain and Portugal, Donizetti's music reigned supreme in Naples, an ascendancy which did not end until censorship problems with the latter's Poliuto caused a final break.
Da Mercadante vendte tilbage til Italien efter at have boet i Spanien og Portugal, var det Donizettis musik, der dominerede i Napoli, en dominans der ikke endte, før censuren skabte problemer for Poliuto.