Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence

Tim Carter, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Jacopo Peri (1561-1633): aspects of his life and works; Jacopo Peri; Jacopo Peri's Euridice (1600): a contextual study; A Florentine wedding of 1608; Serate musicali in early seventeenth-century Florence: Girolamo Montesardo's L'allegre notti di Fiorenza (1608); Giulio Caccini (1551-1618): New facts, new music; Music and patronage in late sixteenth-century Florence: the case of Jacopo Corsi (1561-1602); Non occorre nominare tanti musici: private patronage and public ceremony in late sixteenth-century Florence; Another promoter of the 1582 'Rassettatura' of the Decameron; The music trade in late sixteenth-century Florence; Music-printing in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence: Giorgio Marescotti and Zanobi Pignoni; Music-selling in late sixteenth-century Florence: the bookshop of Piero di Giuliano Morosi; Music at the Duomo in Pistoia: Three new documents from the Cinquecento; Index.

'...this richly detailed study brings in many fascinating strands...' - The Birmingham Post '... rich collection of essays.' Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music '... these excellent case studies by one of the leading scholars of early modern Italian music not only fit together well to form a well-considered, unified volume, but also provide the reader with a privileged entry into the cultural world of late-Renaissance Florence.' - Sixteenth Century Journal 'We welcome these volumes as handy repositories of thinking by experts in a particular area, especially when they make more readily available studies that appeared in Festschriften and non-musicological journals. Moreover, by bringing such articles together, the publisher allows us to see an author's separate works as an interrelated whole... Tim Carter has produced here a distinctive body of work that effectively combines his research on seventeenth-century opera and Florence with his studies on music printing and urban musicology. It is an exemplary combination that illustrates the importance of combining research on genres, performance, cultural context, and modes of transmission in order to construct that "web of culture" for which so many of us strive... thought-provoking and informative.' - Renaissance Quarterly