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Although little is well known of the life span of Giovanni Picchi, he was well-known enough to become depicted in an image over the title page of Fabritio Caroso’s Nobilit? de dame, released in Venice in 1600 and in another model in 1605. He’s shown being a lute participant. He …

If one were to mention the composer that stitches the seam between your Renaissance as well as the Baroque, it could be Claudio Monteverdi — the same composer who’s largely and sometimes credited with building the cut to begin with. The road from his first canzonettas and madrigals to his …