Editing Vincenzo Bellini (section)

===Maddalena Fumaroli===
Although the frustrating affair with Maddalena Fumaroli which, as noted above, came to nothing during these early years, the success achieved by ''Bianca e Gernado'' gave Bellini fresh hope that her parents would finally relent, and a new appeal was made through a friend. This was utterly rejected by Maddalena's father, who returned all the letters which she had received along with a letter from him stating that "my daughter will never marry a poor piano player (''suonatore di cembalo'')".<ref>Fumarolis to Bellini (date unknown), in {{harvnb|Galatopoulos|2002|p=56}}</ref> However, when Florimo gave him the news, he said that he was going to try again and win, but the next move was to come later from the Fumaroli family.

At some time before March 1828, after the major success of ''Il pirata'' and just as Bellini was about to leave Milan for his production of ''Bianca e Ferdinando'' in Genoa, he received a notification from his go-between with the Fumaroli family that they had withdrawn their rejection of his proposal. But by then—with the efforts to build his career and with time and distance between him and Maddalena—his feelings had changed and, using Florimo to communicate to the family, he rejected the offer, expressing the feeling that he would be unable to support her financially. Even Maddalena's own pleas in three letters which followed failed to change his mind.{{sfn|Galatopoulos|2002|pp=73–74}}