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Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History) Richard A. Goldthwaite ISBN 10: 067472464X?ISBN 13: 9780674724648 Nuovi ?Rilegato Quantità: Prezzo: EUR 125,00 Convertire valuta Spese di spedizione:EUR 12,00 Descrizione libro: Hardcover. Condizione libro: New. Hardcover. 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 for a greater exploration of Peris 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 Peris 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 Europes 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. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA. book. Codice libro della libreria 007666 Size: 170 X240 mm.Coll. Bibl.Jardin : Settore Musica