 In addition to composing madrigals in a relatively conservative style, works which were published as far away as England, he collaborated with Giulio Caccini on one of the earliest operas, "Il rapimento di Cefalo" (1600).Very little is known about Venturi del Nibbio's life.In 1592 he was in Venice, presumably to supervise the printing of his first two books of madrigals ("Il primo libro de madrigali", and "Il primo libro de madrigali pastorali", both for five voices), and in 1593 or 1594 he moved to Florence.