Author: Gary Tomlinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520069803
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Combining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.