Oppositions in late-Renaissance thought : three case studies -- The perfection of musical rhetoric -- Youthful imitatio and the first discovery of Tasso (books I and II) -- Wert, Tasso, and the heroic style (book III) -- Guarini and the epigrammatic style (books III and IV) -- Excursus 1 : A speculative chronology of the madrigals of books IV and V -- Guarini, Rinuccini, and the ideal of musical speech -- Excursus 2 : The reconciliation of dramatic and epigrammatic thetoric in the Sestina of book VI -- The emergence of new ideals -- Marino and the musical eclogue (book VI) -- Marinism and the madrigal, I (book VII) -- Marinism and the madrigal, II (developments after book VII) -- The meeting of Petrarchan and Marinist ideals (the last opera) -- The end of the Renaissance -- Monteverdi and Italian culture, 1550-1700 -- Works cited -- Index of Monteverdi's works and their texts.
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