Cosimo Bottegari

Cosimo Bottegari (1554—1620) was an Italian lutenist and composer of the Late Renaissance era.

He was born in Florence and in 1573 became a gentleman of the chamber of the Duke, at the court of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria in Munich,[1] granted of the hereditary equestrian nobility of Bavaria in 1574, with the Heraldic chief of Bavaria and created a Knight of the Order of Saint Stephen 1577, by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

[2] He left a manuscript of compositions titled Il Libro di canto e liuto[3] which is an important source for Italian songs of the period.

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