Cesare Negri

He wrote Le Grazie d'Amore, the first text on ballet theory to expound the principle of the five basic positions[citation needed].

He is found in his new work, such as the tram, the leap of fiocó, a kind of launch made in the street: it was to touch a knot of ribbons suspended ceiling (fiocco,) with the tip of the foot During the jump Negri is The first that defends the feet in the fuore[check spelling], origin of the call "in dehors".

It describes steps of a technical difficulty superior and executed with greater speed like the pirouette on a foot or the turns in the air, that the present dancers continue practicing.

And contains the first descriptions of dances created for a show organized with the wedding motif of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia with the Archduke Albert of Austria.

As also on June 26, 1574, in that same city, a masquerade of 25 entrances of floats symbolizing the states of the soul; Later he directed a band in the ducal place, with 82 participants of the high nobility, with allegorical and mythological subjects.