Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli () was an Italian composer of the Baroque period.

Life and career

She was related to the family of

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(1497–1574) by birth, and the noble family of Tingoli by marriage. Ruggiero Giovannelli might have been her teacher. She published ''Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, con un dialogo a otto novamente composti & dati in luce'' in Venice in 1597, which is a composition known as a madrigal. This collection includes 20 madrigals, and is dedicated to Monsignore il Cardinale San Giorgio, the Cardinal

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. It survives in two

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s and a manuscript tablature also survives. The cantus and

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partbooks do not survive. ''Il primo libro'' contains 14 five-voice madrigals and an eight-voice dialogue by Ricci, and two madrigals by Alberto Ghirlinzoni, who is only known from this publication. The texts are by Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and

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, all of whom were associated with the academy of Cardinal

. Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired a first edition of her work in 2002.

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* * Italian Baroque composers Italian women classical composers Italian Renaissance composers 1570s births Year of death unknown Italian Renaissance people 17th-century Italian composers 17th-century Italian women composers {{Italy-composer-stub