Luigi Dentice (1510 in Naples – 1566 in Naples) was an Italian composer, musical theorist, singer and lutenist who served the powerful Sanseverino family,[1] and was father of Fabrizio Dentice (1539 – 1581), also a composer and lutenist.
He married Vincenza Caracciolo, who in 1566 was left a widow with two young children.
[3] As a singer, Luigi Dentice appears to have sung as a male soprano falsettist.
[4] His main work of music theory Duo dialoghi della musica, Rome 1553, was a collection of classical Greek and Latin writings on music, translated into Italian, with Dentice's own commentary.
[7] It also includes Dentice's opinions on inflection in musica ficta,,[8] and the practice of monody later developed by Giulio Caccini and others.