Benedetto Pallavicino
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Benedetto Pallavicino was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. A prolific composer of madrigals, he was resident at the Gonzaga court of Mantua in the 1590s, where he was a close
Ducal palace at Mantua, where Pallavicino was employed variously as singer, composer, and music director, from 1583 until 1601.
Giovanni Battista Guarini
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Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Courtier at Ferrara, diplomat and secretary to several ruling families, he served also at Florence and Urbino. He is best known
Benedetto Pallavicino
…the end of the musical Renaissance, that his shift to the new style of the seconda pratica is most prominent. The madrigals, mostly based on texts by Giovanni Battista Guarini – by far the favorite poet of madrigal composers of the time – are written in a largely homophonic and declamatory style which is highly attentive to…
Engraved portrait of Giovanni Battista Guarini by Arrigo Minasi (1812)
Jacob van Loo, Amarillis Crowning Mirtillo, a scene from Guarini's Pastor fido, circa 1640