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The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537
By (Author) Anthony M. Cummings
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
780.94551109031
Hardback
282
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these o