Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Competition and pre-eminence
• First fruits of genius on the world stage
• Cardinal d'Este
• Maestro di cappella
• Secular music for a prince of the church
• The 'buon compagno' pope
• The Ferrarese interlude
• 'Gentildonne'
• Roman confraternities
• Homeland and compatriots
• 'Musici di Roma'
• 'Stravaganze d'amore'
• The new pope
• A job in Mantua?
• 'His heart in France'
• A 'new aria'
• The grand duke's wedding
• Orsini and Montalto
• The peak of his career
• From Vatican Palace to Polish court
• Repentance?
• The 'Wise Fool'
• The Platonic spirit
• A new style
• Order and significance
• Seconda prattica and second Renaissance
• Bibliography
• Index of compositions by Marenzio
• General index.