 It was on the lukewarm premiere of the former in 1863 that Faccio was fêted with a banquet where Boito read his ode "All'arte italiana", which famously so offended Giuseppe Verdi that the composer refused to work with him when the publisher Ricordi first suggested a collaboration.The offending lines, "Forse già nacque chi sovra l'altare / Rizzerà l'arte, verecondo e puro, / Su quel'altar bruttato come un muro / Di lupanare" ("Perhaps the man is already born who, modest and pure, will restore art to its altar stained like a brothel's wall").In later years, Boito wrote revisions to the libretto of Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" and the original librettos for "Otello" and "Falstaff".