Orpheus in the Marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence / Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite.
2013
ML410.P292
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Title
Orpheus in the Marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence / Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite.
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ISBN
9780674726574
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (479 p.) : 18 halftones, 19 line illustrations, 3 maps
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674726574 doi
Call Number
ML410.P292
Alternate Call Number
LQ 81603
Dewey Decimal Classification
782.1092
Summary
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 Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the 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 opens a 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. They also 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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I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
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print 9780674724648
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface
A Note on Money
A Note on Transcriptions
Introduction
1. The Social World
2. The Economic World
3. The Musical World
4. Last Years, Death, and the End of the Line
Conclusion
Appendix
A. Chronology
B. Letters from Jacopo Peri
C. Catalogue of Peri's musical works
D. Four poems concerning Jacopo Peri
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface
A Note on Money
A Note on Transcriptions
Introduction
1. The Social World
2. The Economic World
3. The Musical World
4. Last Years, Death, and the End of the Line
Conclusion
Appendix
A. Chronology
B. Letters from Jacopo Peri
C. Catalogue of Peri's musical works
D. Four poems concerning Jacopo Peri
Works Cited
Index