Monteverdi, Claudio and Monteverdi, Giulio Cesare
(1567–1643)
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDIMONTEVERDI, CLAUDIOCLAUDIO MONTEVERDI [* 1567-† 1643] and GIULIO CESARE MONTEVERDIMONTEVERDI, GIULIO CESAREGIULIO CESARE MONTEVERDI [bapt. 1573-† ca. 1630-31] Though Claudio Monteverdi preferred to demonstrate the power of his new compositional practice through actual music rather than through words, the abusive treatment several excerpts from his works had received under ARTUSI's scrutiny [in L'Artusi (1600 and 1603), where several examples from Monteverdi's unpublished…