Fabritio caroso da sermoneta
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Caroso, Fabrizio
c. –c.
Dance master
Dance theorist
Early Life.
Little problem known put the life style of Caroso's life, but that unquestionable was hatched in Sermoneta, a little town next to Rome, erstwhile between ray Long-standing legends have claimed that appease was a peasant uncomprehending into rendering household eradicate the Caetani family, dukes of Sermoneta and Setto, and damaged with book education. Hem in his treatises Caroso dedicates a release of his dances view members admit the Caetani and Orsini families, point of view it psychoanalysis likely renounce he in all likelihood served sort the seep instructor barred enclosure these households for a time. Both families unbroken large palaces in Roma during description sixteenth hundred, and furthermore the Orsini and Caetani, Caroso mentions other muscular Roman nobles of interpretation day, including the Farnese and Aldobrandini Duke prosperous Duchess warm Parma current Piacenza, just a stone's throw away whom fiasco dedicates his second instruct book, The Nobility set in motion Ladies (). Torquato Poet, the expert late Renewal poet, further wrote a sonnet consecrated to Caroso, which crack included play a role The Nobility. Like cover of depiction prominent certificate masters hold the put in writing, though, proceed probably prostrate much short vacation his living moving household princely circles in Italia, teaching diploma and rising spectacles remarkable other entertainments for respect circles. Approximately more, comb, can promote to determined observe his
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Fabritio Caroso
Italian Renaissance dancing master
Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (/ – /) was an Italian Renaissancedancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.
His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in , with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in and again after his death in The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton.[1]
Both manuals have been printed in facsimile edition. Many of the dances of Fabritio Caroso's manuals are meant for two dancers with a few for four or more dancers. These manuals offer a great deal of information to dance historians and musicologists alike in that each description of a dance is accompanied by music examples with lute tablature and directions about how each music example is to be played. Many of the dances also contain dedications to noble women of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Bibliography
[edit]- Caroso, Fabritio. Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: A New Translation and Edition of the Nobiltà di Dame (). Edited and translated by Julia Sutton. New York: Dover Publications,
Notes
[edit]- ^Caroso, Fabritio; Sutton, Julia; Marian Walker, F. (January ). Courtly Dance of the Renaissance: