TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Tim
AU  - Goldthwaite,Richard A.
TI  - Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence 
T2  - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
SN  - 9780674724648
AV  - ML410.P292 
U1  - 782.1092 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Composers
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Florence
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Finance, Personal
KW  - History
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726574
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674726574
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674726574/original
ER  -