Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Money -- A Note on Transcriptions -- Introduction -- 1. The Social World -- 2. The Economic World -- 3. The Musical World -- 4. Last Years, Death, and the End of the Line -- Conclusion -- A. Chronology -- B. Letters from Jacopo Peri -- C. Catalogue of Peri's musical works -- D. Four poems concerning Jacopo Peri -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary
This record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-452) and index
