Fabritio Caroso

His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630.

The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton.

These manuals offer a great deal of information to dance historians and musicologists alike in that each description of a dance is accompanied by music examples with lute tablature and directions about how each music example is to be played.

Many of the dances also contain dedications to noble women of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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