Galilei, Vincenzo
(†1591)
VINCENZO GALILEIGALILEI, VINCENZOVINCENZO GALILEI [* late 1520s?-† 1591] The writings of Vincenzo Galilei document the intense conflicts in musical thought towards the end of the sixteenth century. Having studied under ZARLINO, Galilei absorbed MEI's distinctly superior conceptions of ancient music and became a bitter enemy of his former teacher, a lively spokesman for Bardi's Camerata, and a visionary architect of powerful new manners of composition. Galilei's work with ZARLINO sometime around…