Orpheus in the Marketplace : : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence /

Orpheus in the Marketplace : : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence / / Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite.

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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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Carter, Tim,
Goldthwaite, Richard A.,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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