Ercole Bottrigari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ercole Bottrigari

Italian Renaissance man

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1531

Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1612

Profession: composer, musicologist, music theorist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ercole Bottrigari

  • Ercole Bottrigari (1531–1612) was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer.
  • The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, he was legitimized in 1538 and raised in his household in Bologna.
  • He distinguished himself by reciting poetry at a court function and was rewarded with the orders of Knight of the Holy See and Lateran in 1542.Bottrigari published books of madrigals, including Il primo libro di madrigali a quattro voci (Venice, 1558) and Libro terzo de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1583).
  • In 1546 with the help of his father Bottrigari established a small private press, but very few works from it survive.
  • In 1551 he married Lucrezia Usberti (died 1591).
  • In 1576 he fled to Ferrara, where he got to know Torquato Tasso, and where he gathered information for his 1594 treatise Il Desiderio, overo de' concerti di varii strumenti musicali.
  • In 1586 he moved back to Bologna, where he was in touch with intellectuals such as Gioseffo Zarlino and Annibale Melone.
  • His first musical treatise, Il Patricio (1593), dealt with classical subjects and was written in the form of a dialogue.
  • Mascara, overo della fabbrica de' teatri (1598), never published, is an important work for modern scholars, describing theatrical structures and practice.

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