Hi One thing I did years ago, prior to North's book and other continuo tutors being published was to take madrigal collections with keyboard reductions and read the bottom 3 or 4 parts or just read them from a choral score, then go back and take just the bass line and do an on site realization(protocontinuo) It's interesting to see the formulas they used. Every once in a while I put basso figures under some notes. The AR editions of Caccini, Peri etc. are also fun to go through the figures are minimal as compared to later works by Bach, Teleman etc. The Malpierro Vivaldi series, available in most University Libraries is great too. But, as far as the 17th cent. goes, watch that Purcell - some hairy figures. At the same time I was doing this - late 70's early 80's - I was giving guitar lessons in studios and in the public schools, and worked on harmonizing Go tell Aunt Rhody and other gems, either in jazz chort forms or with a more classical, finger style/bassline block chordal or arpeggiated ala Giuliani approach. . Oh...and do as much harmonic analysis of the period you are working with as you can...Hope this helps
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