Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance

Author/Contributor(s):	Tomlinson, Gary
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	07/09/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.