Article: The Court Musicians in Florence During the Principate of the Medici, with a Reconstruction of the Artistic Establishment.

This sumptuous book is the richest compilation of archival material on Florentine music history since those by Angelo Solerti (Le origini del melodramma: tesimonianze dei contemporanei [Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1903], and Gli albori del melodramma [Milan: Sandron, 1904]). It is a product of thirty years' research by Warren Kirkendale in the archives and libraries of Florence and other Italian dries, as well as in libraries in Germany, eastern Europe, Great Britain, and the United States. Kirkendale permits the reader to retrace his steps by supporting each fact or document with the location of the original source and, if previously known, reference to publications.

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