I TATTI STUDIES IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE HISTORY
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Orpheus in the Marketplace

Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

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ISBN 9780674724648

Publication: November 2013

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496 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

18 halftones, 19 line illustrations, 3 maps

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    • List of Figures and Tables*
    • Preface
    • A Note on Money
    • A Note on Transcriptions
    • Introduction
      • The Story So Far
      • Sources and Documents
      • The Peri Archive
    • 1. The Social World
      • The Early Years before Marriage
      • The Family
        • Wives
        • Children (until Their Father’s Death)
      • Social Status
      • Networks
        • Finding Godparents
        • A Banker Patron (Giovambattista Michelozzi)
        • A Musical Patron (Jacopo Corsi)
    • 2. The Economic World
      • The Culture of the Marketplace
        • Accountancy
        • Banking
      • Investments and Employment
        • Cloth Industries
        • Bills of Exchange
        • Censi
        • Government Securities
        • Real Estate
      • Income and Shifting Investment Priorities
    • 3. The Musical World
      • Peri’s Early Career
      • Music at the Medici Court
        • The Medici Musical Establishment
        • Court Musical Entertainments
      • Peri as Court Musician
      • Peri as Singing Teacher
      • Altri Favori e Carezze
      • Peri’s Music
    • 4. Last Years, Death, and the End of the Line
      • A Final Reckoning
      • A Widow and Her Sons
    • Conclusion
      • The Economic Scene ca. 1600
      • The Musical Scene ca. 1600
      • Behind the Scenes
    • Appendixes
      • A. Chronology
      • B. Letters from Jacopo Peri
      • C. Catalogue of Peri’s Musical Works
      • D. Four Poems concerning Jacopo Peri
    • Works Cited
    • Index
    • * Figures and Tables
      • Figures
        • Genealogical Charts
          • I.1. The Medici grand dukes
          • 1.1. Genealogical chart (selective) of the Peri family
          • 1.3. Genealogical chart (selective) of the Fortunati family
          • 1.6. Genealogical chart (selective) of the Fortini and Monaldi families
        • Graph
          • 1.7. Comparative life spans of Jacopo Peri’s children by his third wife
        • Illustrations
          • Frontispiece: Peri as Arion in the fifth of the 1589 intermedi
          • 1.5. The present house at Via dei Fossi 19, where Jacopo Peri lived from 1596 until his death
          • 1.8. Peri coat of arms
          • 1.9. Portrait medal of Giovambattista Michelozzi, with the high altar of S. Spirito on the reverse
          • 1.10. Cristoforo Stati, Orfeo
          • 2.1. The rental account from Ledger A of Jacopo Peri (1582)
          • 3.1. Jacopo Peri’s ricordo of his trip to Rome, May–June 1616
          • 3.2. Jacopo Peri’s ricordo of his trip to Bologna, April 1616
          • 3.3. Title page of Jacopo Peri’s Euridice (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1600[=1601])
          • 3.4. Title page of Giulio Caccini’s Euridice (Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1600)
          • 3.5. Title page of Jacopo Peri’s Le varie musiche (Florence: Cristofano Marescotti, 1609)
          • 3.6. Title page of Jacopo Peri’s Le varie musiche (Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1619)
          • 4.1. The modern plaque in S. Maria Novella, Florence, commemorating Jacopo Peri
          • 4.2. The modern plaque on the Palazzo Corsi (Via Tornabuoni, on the north side facing Via Corsi) commemorating the performance of Dafne in Jacopo Corsi’s vicine case (nearby houses)
          • A.1. Jacopo Peri, letter to Prince Ferdinando Gonzaga, 26 October 1607 (Letter 7)
          • A.2. Jacopo Peri, letter to Alessandro Striggio (the younger), 28 April 1620 (Letter 32)
          • A.3. Jacopo Peri, letter to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, 24 August 1630 (Letter 33)
        • Maps
          • 1.2. Stefano Bonsignori’s view of Florence (1584), showing places associated with Jacopo Peri
          • 1.4. Stefano Bonsignori’s view of Florence (1584): detail (edited) showing the approximate location of the house of Jacopo Peri in Via dei Fossi
          • 2.2. Map of Tuscany showing rural properties of Jacopo Peri
      • Tables
        • 1.1. State offices held by Jacopo Peri
        • 1.2. Godparents of Jacopo Peri’s children
        • 2.1. Investments of Jacopo Peri in the cloth industries
        • 2.2. Censi purchased by Jacopo Peri
        • 2.3. Real-estate acquisitions by Jacopo Peri
        • 2.4. Jacopo Peri’s principal investments
        • 2.5. Jacopo Peri’s annual income from selected sources
        • 2.6. Jacopo Peri’s income in 1630
        • 2.7. Jacopo Peri’s marketable assets in 1633
        • 2.8. Estimates of the value of Jacopo Peri’s properties
        • 3.1. Musicians on the Medici court roll in three sample years
        • 3.2. Entertainments at court in two sample years
        • 3.3. Entertainments for the visit of Cardinals Del Monte and Montalto, November–December 1602
        • 4.1. Jacopo Peri’s partition of income among his children in 1630