{"product_id":"orpheus-in-the-marketplace-tim-carter-9780674724648","title":"Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, \u003ci\u003eEuridice \u003c\/i\u003e(1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family allows for a greater exploration of Peri's professional and personal life. Richard Goldthwaite, an economic historian, and Tim Carter, a musicologist, have done much more, however, than write a biography: their investigation exposes the remarkable value of such financial documents as a primary source for an entire period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis record of Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and also opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism. His economic circumstances reflect continuities and transformations in Florentine society, and the strategies for negotiating them, under the Medici grand dukes. At the same time they allow a reevaluation of Peri the singer and composer that elucidates the cultural life of a major artistic center even in changing times, providing a quite different view of what it meant to be a musician in late Renaissance Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Carter,Richard A. Goldthwaite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067472464X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674724648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/04\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/20\/2013 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 266","brand":"Tim Carter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447757975807,"sku":"9780674724648","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b2234f49-763d-476d-b527-ab3b82554fc8.jpg?v=1777234606","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/orpheus-in-the-marketplace-tim-carter-9780674724648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}