- 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
- The Culture of the Marketplace
- 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
- Genealogical Charts
- 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
- Figures
