Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence

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.