Hello Marco! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
You seem to have cracked a long-standing mystery in Cinquecento lute music. Whether Knight of the Lute was one or more persons has nagged me and others for ages. What a relief to have it solved after all those years. We all look forward to reading your paper. Did you know that an Italian student is doing a dissertation on Laurencini? She's studying in Cremona, I think. I can try to locate her address if you need it. Best wshes from Boston, Arthur. Arthur Ness =================Marco Pesci wrote=============================== FROM: "marco", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: LUTE NET, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: 4/19/04 6:48 PM Re: The Knight of the Lute Dear e-friends, I would like to inform you my forthcoming study on next 'Recercare' (italian journal for the study and practice of early music), 'Il Cavaliere disvelato. Vincenzo Pinti nella corte di Roma detto il Cavaliere del Liuto' (in italian, with summary in english). According to my discovered sources Vincenzo Pinti was 'the most famous the Knight of the Lute'. You'll find a lot of new informations, unknown documents about this great lute player in my study. It's finally clear that the Knight of the Lute was not Laurencinus, but they were two different persons with very different history and life. Indeed, as someone will remember, I've just published a documentation that pointed out that 'Lorenzino' was the nickname of the lute player Lorenzo Tracetti (Recercare, IX, 1997: 233-242, summary in english) who died in 1590. This evidence excluded the possibility that Laurencinus and the Knight of the Lute (died in 1608) were one and the same person. All the best, Marco Pesci marco.pescinwind.it marcopesciliceposta.it
