Fenlon, Iain - Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy

Iain Fenlon explores how music was an 'instrument' of those in power in late Renaissance Italy. Focusing on major urban centres - Mantua, Milan, Rome, Florence, and Venice - he argues that, far from losing its vigour after 1530, Italian culture was in fact transformed, as both individuals and institutions reacted to new political, economic, and religious circumstances.

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CONTENTS

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1. Magnificence as Civic Image: Music and Ceremonial Space in Early Modern Venice
2. Strangers in Paradise: Dutchmen in Venice in 1525
3. Music and Reform: The Savonarolan Legacy
4. Music and Civic Piety in Counter-Reformation Milan
Appendix: The Tini Broadside Catalogue of c. 1596
5. Scipione Gonzaga: A 'Poor' Cardinal in Rome
6. Gioseffo Zarlino and the Accademia Venetiana della Fama
7. Lepanto: Music, Ceremony, and Celebration in Counter-Reformation Rome
8. Rites of Passage: Cosimo I de' Medici and the Theatre of Death
9. Giaches de Wert and the Palatine Basilica of Santa Barbara: Music, Liturgy, and Design
10. Preparations for a Princess: Florence, 1588-1589
Bibliography
Index