Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy Dispute Resolution Drawing upon 178 in-depth interviews

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Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy Dispute Resolution Drawing upon 178 in-depth interviewsDr Fenlon explores the role music played in the cultural, religious, and political upheavals of late Renaissance Italy, revealing how musical activity of all kinds was instrumentalized by those in power. Focusing on the second half of the sixteenth century a period still often regarded as one of decline and degeneration after the achievements of the Quattrocento and before the calamit d'Italia the author argues that Italian culture did not lose its