Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1
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)
3
Wert, Tasso, and the Heroic Style (Book III)
4
Guarini and the Epigrammatic Style (Books III and IV)
EXCURSUS 1
A Speculative Chronology
of the Madrigals ofBooks IV and V
5
Guarini, Rinuccini, and the Ideal of Musical Speech
EXCURSUS 2
The Reconciliation ofDramatic and Epigrammatic Rhetoric in the Sestina of Book VI
The Emergence ofNew Ideals
6
Marino and the Musical Eclogue (Book VI)
7
Marinism and the Madrigal, I (Book VII)
8
Marinism and the Madrigal, II (Developments after Book VII)
9
The Meeting ofPetrarchan and Marinist Ideals (The Last Operas)
The End of the Renaissance
10
Monteverdi and Italian Culture, 1550-1700
Works Cited PAGE
Index of Monteverdi's Works and Their Texts
General Index
