Explores the role of music in the cultural, religious, and political upheavals of late Renaissance Italy, revealing how musical activity of all kinds was instru

Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Fl

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

This is the first in-depth study in any language exploring the vast cultural range of instrumental music during the Renaissance.

Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the au