Thank you for me reminding me! I started "Imprimatur" (in french) last year on vacation. I got about a hundred pages into it, still yearning for more from De Visee, and forgot about it when I got home... I think it's probably still in my carry-on bag! (I would have preferred more Tous les Matins and less Da Vinci Code) With a decent soundtrack, it might make a better movie... (Vatel and Le Roi qui Dance were fun.) For best performance by a baroque guitarist in harlequin costume (among many other wonderful vignettes), my award goes to the DVD of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, music by Vincent Dumestre... It's a real gem!
Have you read "Music and Silence" by Rose Tremain (about a lutenist)? or any of the many trashy courtesan-themed books? For vihuelists (viola?), The Cardinal's Red Hat was also a fascinating read... The book/film I'm waiting for is one based loosely on a fictionalized biography of Santiago de Murcia... Would anyone care to collaborate on writing one? :) Trovatrice On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Monica Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder whether many people on this list have read "Imprimatur" by Rita > Monaldi and Francesco Sorti. It features De Visee - playing a six-string > guitar - and the castrato singer Atto Melani - a sort of Da Vinci Code meets > Tous les Matins du Monde. > > It is now available in English translation - and not to be missed! I > wonder whether it will be made into a film. > > Monica > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html> > --
