{"product_id":"9781009446785","title":"Lettera amorosa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind of vocality which was rooted in the letters of antiquity and endured in the musical sub-genre of the lettera amorosa. Epistolary poetry served to transform, or, to echo Achillini's lettera set by Monteverdi (1567–1643), to 'distill' a lover's thoughts and emotions into verse, and the music that set it was equally transformative. The history of musical letters spans several centuries. It begins in the early sixteenth with a setting of Ovid's Heroides by Tromboncino; returns in the early seventeenth through the lettere amorose of Monteverdi, D'India, and Frescobaldi; and ends with epistolary cantatas by Carissimi, Melani, and Domenico Scarlatti. This Element traces the breadth and significance of the musical love letter with a focus on the provocative lettere amorose of the seventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roseen Giles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52387101638974,"sku":"9781009446785","price":940.62,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9781009446785.jpg?v=1761164875","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781009446785","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}