View in EDS PDF Full Text ePub Full Text

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

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Title: Orpheus in the Marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence
Description: The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done much more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the remarkable value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period.This record of 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 also opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. At the same time they allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.
Authors: Tim Carter, Richard A. Goldthwaite
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Finance, Personal--Italy--Florence--History--17th century, Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic conditions--16th century, Composers--Italy--Biography, Finance, Personal--Italy--Florence--History--16th century, Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic conditions--17th century
Categories: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, HISTORY / Social History, MUSIC / History & Criticism
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
FullText Links:
  – Type: ebook-pdf
  – Type: ebook-epub
Text:
  Availability: 0
Header DbId: nlebk
DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
An: 575626
RelevancyScore: 1051
AccessLevel: 6
PubType: eBook
PubTypeId: ebook
PreciseRelevancyScore: 1050.81640625
IllustrationInfo
ImageInfo – Size: thumb
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$575626$PDF&s=r
– Size: medium
  Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$575626$PDF&s=d
Items – Name: Title
  Label: Title
  Group: Ti
  Data: Orpheus in the Marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence
– Name: Abstract
  Label: Description
  Group: Ab
  Data: The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done much more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the remarkable value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period.This record of 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 also opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. At the same time they allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.
– Name: Author
  Label: Authors
  Group: Au
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Tim+Carter%22">Tim Carter</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Richard+A%2E+Goldthwaite%22">Richard A. Goldthwaite</searchLink>
– Name: TypePub
  Label: Resource Type
  Group: TypPub
  Data: eBook.
– Name: Subject
  Label: Subjects
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Finance%2C+Personal--Italy--Florence--History--17th+century%22">Finance, Personal--Italy--Florence--History--17th century</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic+conditions--16th+century%22">Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic conditions--16th century</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Composers--Italy--Biography%22">Composers--Italy--Biography</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Finance%2C+Personal--Italy--Florence--History--16th+century%22">Finance, Personal--Italy--Florence--History--16th century</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic+conditions--17th+century%22">Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic conditions--17th century</searchLink>
– Name: SubjectBISAC
  Label: Categories
  Group: Su
  Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22BIOGRAPHY+%26+AUTOBIOGRAPHY+%2F+Music%22">BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22BUSINESS+%26+ECONOMICS+%2F+Economic+History%22">BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+Europe+%2F+Italy%22">HISTORY / Europe / Italy</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+Europe+%2F+Renaissance%22">HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22HISTORY+%2F+Social+History%22">HISTORY / Social History</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22MUSIC+%2F+History+%26+Criticism%22">MUSIC / History & Criticism</searchLink>
PLink https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=575626
RecordInfo BibRecord:
  BibEntity:
    Classifications:
      – Code: 782.1092
        Scheme: ddc
        Type: prePub
    Languages:
      – Code: eng
        Text: English
    Subjects:
      – SubjectFull: Finance, Personal--Italy--Florence--History--17th century
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic conditions--16th century
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Composers--Italy--Biography
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Finance, Personal--Italy--Florence--History--16th century
        Type: general
      – SubjectFull: Composers--Italy--Florence--Economic conditions--17th century
        Type: general
    Titles:
      – TitleFull: Orpheus in the Marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence
        Type: main
  BibRelationships:
    HasContributorRelationships:
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Tim Carter
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Richard A. Goldthwaite
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Tim Carter
      – PersonEntity:
          Name:
            NameFull: Richard A. Goldthwaite
    IsPartOfRelationships:
      – BibEntity:
          Dates:
            – D: 01
              M: 01
              Type: published
              Y: 2013
            – D: 04
              M: 02
              Type: profile
              Y: 2014
          Identifiers:
            – Type: isbn-print
              Value: 9780674724648
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780674726574
            – Type: isbn-electronic
              Value: 9780674727939
          Titles:
            – TitleFull: Orpheus in the Marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence
              Type: main
ResultId 1