Table of Contents

1. The origins of Mantuan Renaissance culture; 2. Ercole Gonzaga and jacquet of Mantua; 3. Guglielmo Gonzaga and the Santa Barbara project; 4. Vincenzo Gonzaga and the new arts of spectacle.

Promotional Information

Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age.