Carlo Gesualdo
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Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chrom
1609 donor portrait of Gesualdo from Il Perdono di Gesualdo
Castle of Gesualdo
In flagrante delicto
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In flagrante delicto, sometimes simply in flagrante, is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence. The colloquial "caught red-handed" is an Engl
Carlo Gesualdo
…chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. He is also known for killing his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto (having sex). Gesualdo's family had acquired the principality of Venosa, in what is now the Province of Potenza, Southern Italy, in 1560. He was probably…
in Flagranti, Antwerp 1607