Lucia Quinciani (c. 1566, ''fl.'' 1611) was an Italian composer. She is the earliest known published female composer of

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.Thomas W. Bridges. "Lucia Quinciani", ''

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'', ed. L. Macy (accessed November 5, 2006)
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(subscription access). She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from

Giovanni Battista Guarini Giovanni Battista Guarini (10 December 1538 – 7 October 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Life Guarini was born in Ferrara. On the termination of his studies at the universities of Pisa, Padua and Ferrara, he was appointed pr ...

's ''Il pastor fido'', found in

Marcantonio Negri Marcantonio Negri (died October 1624) was an Italian composer, singer, and musical director of the early Baroque era. He was in the musical establishment of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice at the same time as Monteverdi, and was well known as a c ...

's ''Affetti amorosi'' second volume (1611),Gary Tomlison (ed). Italian secular song, 1606-1636 : a seven-volume reprint collection. Vol. 5 in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or

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