Orpheus in the Marketplace - Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence

Presents a record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace that enables a detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tim Carter is David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Richard A. Goldthwaite is Professor Emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University.

Zusammenfassung

This record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tim Carter, Tim Goldthwaite Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite, Goldthwaite Richard A.
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.11.2013
• EAN: 9780674724648
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72464-8
• Seiten: 496
• Serien: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History; I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Monografien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; European History, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Economic history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599