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Orpheus in the Marketplace - Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
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Orpheus in the Marketplace - Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)
Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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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.
A large collection of recently discovered 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 much more,
however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the
remarkable 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 also opens a completely 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. At the same time they 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.
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