When the 1848 revolution broke out, Merelli was suspected of spying for Radetsky, and he spent some time in Vienna after leaving La Scala.
Bartolomeo | Bartolomeo della Gatta | Bartolomeo Merelli | Bartolomeo Gastaldi | Bartolomeo Eustachi | Bartolomeo Colleoni | ''Christ carrying the Cross'', either by Bartolomeo Coda | Bartolomeo Tromboncino | Bartolomeo Maranta | Bartolomeo di Breganze | Bartolomeo della Rocca | Bartolomeo d'Alviano | Bartolomeo Cristofori | Bartolomeo Coda | Bartolomeo Bulgarini | Bartolomeo Bon | Bartolomeo Ammannati | Bartolomeo Altomonte |
Bartolomeo Merelli (who later, as Intendant at La Scala, was to commission Verdi's first opera), wrote the Italian libretto based on Der Graf von Burgund by August von Kotzebue.
The opera uses the same Italian-language libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli after August von Kotzebue's Der Graf von Burgund that Donizetti used for his Enrico di Borgogna a month earlier, but with different music.