Ebook: The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

"The present Companion, while centred on Monteverdi's music, seeks to place it in the context of the institutions for which Monteverdi worked and his intellectual, social and religious environment. It draws together many of the new strands of thought on the composer developed over the last twenty years ... Monteverdi's own letters form a constant source of reference in the essays of this book ..."--Preface.