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Stefano Rossetti
Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (floruit, fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich. Life His life has not yet been thoroughly studied. The earliest information available shows that he may have lived and worked on Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea, Aegean, in the service of the Genoa, Genoese Giustiniani family; the connection can be made from the dedication to one of his 1560 books of madrigal (music), madrigals. In 1560 he assisted at the wedding of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy and Marguerite of Valois, which took place in Nice.Haar, Grove online In 1566 at the latest he went to Florence, where he served Ferdinando I de' Medici as a composer, alongside Alessandro Striggio, and Francesco Corteccia, whose career by then had begun to wane. By 1579 he was in the employ of either Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, Albrecht V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |