INSANGUINE, GIACOMO. - Musician, known as Monopoli from the eponymous city in Apulia where he was born around 1740; died in 1795 in Naples.
An opera composer of the Neapolitan school, he wrote 21 operas, both comic and serious. He studied with Cotumacci at the Conservatory of S. Onofrio in Naples, where he later became second choir master. However, his career unfolded mainly at the Treasury of S. Gennaro, where in 1774 he was elected organist of the second choir, in 1776 organist of the first choir, and finally in 1781 maestro di cappella, succeeding Fago in that position. He composed much sacred music: masses, hymns, psalms, among which the 71st psalm for three voices with chorus or orchestra stands out.
Bibl.: F. Florimo, *La scuola musicale di Napoli*, II, Napoli 1882, pp. 225 ff.; S. di Giacomo, *Maestri di cappella, musici e strumenti al Tesoro di S. Gennaro nei secc. XVIII e XIX*, Napoli 1920, pp. 175 ff.