Music, Spectacle and Cultural Brokerage in Early Modern Italy

Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane

by Janie Cole

Book cover: Music, Spectacle and Cultural Brokerage in Early Modern Italy

Extent: 802 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Art & Art History, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies

Series: Fondazione Carlo Marchi. Quaderni

Series volume number: 44

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2012)

ISBN: 9788822259899

Price: $108.00

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By examining the broader concept of cultural clientelism in the early modern process of cultural dissemination, Janie Cole explores the multifaceted roles adopted by Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane at Italy’s princely courts (primarily the Medici court), his significant contribution to Florentine musical spectacle and literature in his collaborations with major composers, and his critical role as a cultural broker in an intricate world of shifting power dynamics during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

  • By (author) Janie Cole