附註:Map of Venetia on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-464) and index.
1. Flexibility in the Body Social -- 2. Florentines in Venice and the Madrigal at Home -- 3. Petrarchizing the Patron: Vernacular Dialogics and Print Technology. Gottardo Occagna. Antonio Zantani. Appendix: Marco Trivisano -- 4. Ritual Language, New Music: Encounters in the Academy of Domenico Venier. The Legacy of Pietro Bembo, Ratified and Recast. Polyphony and Poetry, High and Low. Improvised Song -- 5. Currents in Venetian Literary and Linguistic Theory: The Consolidation of Poetry and Rhetoric. Bembism on the Terraferma and in the Lagoon. Poetry as Ciceronian Oratory. Decorum, Imitation, and the Canonization of Petrarch. Variazione as Musical Dialectic -- 6. Currents in Venetian Music Theory: The Consolidation of Music and Rhetoric. The Nascent Ciceronianism of Giovanni del Lago. Ciceronianism Matured in Le istitutioni harmoniche of Gioseffo Zarlino. Zarlino's Pedagogy of the Soggeto and Imitatione. Zarlino on Syntax and Cadence -- 7. The Madrigals of Adrian Willaert. Public Sales and Printed Anthologies. Musica nova and Private Style -- 8. The Enigma of Rore: Books One and Two for Five Voices. Madrigali a cinque voci (1542): Petrarchan Woods in the Shadow of Dante. Secondo libro a 5 (1544): Anthology in the Guise of Single-Author Print -- 9. Willaert's Proteges at San Marco: Codification, Dissemination, and Subversion. Girolamo Parabosco. Perissone Cambio: Madrigals for Five Voices. Perissone Cambio: Madrigals for Four Voices. Baldassare Donato, Madrigals to 1553. Appendix: Sonnets on the Death of Perissone Cambio -- 10. Epilogue "sopra le stanze del Petrarca in laude della Madonna": Rore's Vergine Cycle of 1548.