Cipriano de rore biography of barack obama

I. Biography and Patronage

1. Cipriano de Rore’s Early Italian Years: The Brescian Connection
BONNIE J. BLACKBURN

Although not much is known about de Rore’s arrival in Italy or his whereabouts, patrons and connections before his employment at the court of Ferrara in 1546, Bonnie J.

Blackburn has been able to trace a fascinating network of people that converges in Brescia in the circle around Count Fortunato Martinengo. De Rore seems to have been part of a group of composers who were invited by the count, but it is also clear that he was in effect working as a freelance composer.

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Cipriano de Rore and the Este Women
LAURIE STRAS

By concentrating on Ercole’s daughter Anna and his wife, the Duchess Renée de Valois, Stras focuses on the periods of Cipriano’s arrival at and departure from Ferrara respectively.

She investigates de Rore’s settings of choruses from Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio’s tragedy Selene, which is linked to negotiations for the wedding of