Orpheus in the Marketplace : : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence / / Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite.
The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (479 p.) :; 18 halftones, 19 line illustrations, 3 maps |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Money -- A Note on Transcriptions -- Introduction -- 1. The Social World -- 2. The Economic World -- 3. The Musical World -- 4. Last Years, Death, and the End of the Line -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- A. Chronology -- B. Letters from Jacopo Peri -- C. Catalogue of Peri’s musical works -- D. Four poems concerning Jacopo Peri -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Summary: | The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. This record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. They also allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674726574 9783110317350 9783110317152 9783110317145 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674726574 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite. |