Biography
Serving as chapel master at Ancona Cathedral, the Santa Casa, and Gemona, the composer maintained a presence in Rome from 1560 onward, where his network of contacts stayed firmly intact. He addressed one of his canzoni volumes to Boncampagni, the same figure who had received Palestrina’s opening set of madrigal dedications. His napolitane, compressed adaptations of villanellas, counted as his most consequential and widely circulated pieces; these works drew sparingly on established textual models while allowing polyphonic textures for as many as six voices to shift through contrasting materials.
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