In his poem Sigismondo e Isotta, Giuseppe Albini demonstrates his ability to combine his poetic composition with his knowledge of classical metre and Greek and Latin literature. The elegiac couplets in Scene 1 are an explicit allusion to Ovid, while the iambic trimeters in Scene 9 have an immediate hypotext in Euripides’ Hecuba, with a literary echo of Euripides’ Iphigenia Aulidensis and Seneca’s Troades. Finally, Scene 10 contains a ballad that reproduces the rhythm of trochaic dimeters, with an interesting rhythmic variation that finds parallels in the Italian poetic tradition.