Florido de Silvestris

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Florido de Silvestris (Barbarano Romano, ca. 1596 - Rome, 167 ) was an Italian publisher, cantor, composer, playwright and priest. Florido de Silvestris was born in Barbarano Romano (Viterbo), in the Tuscia area . In 1656, as is clear from the "Description of the Campo Marzio district made in July 1656", Don Florido, a priest from Bar [baran] o, was about 60 years old and lived with "Gioanna, his 74-year-old mother" in Rome in a house "between the columns of San Giacomo to the eight cantons". [1] He was a priest and canon of the collegiate church of S. Stefano in Bracciano. He lived permanently in Rome, where, from November 1646 to September 1655, he was chaplain and bass cantor in the chapel of the hospital of S. Spirito in Saxia . From January 1656 he entered, again as a bass singer, in the chapel ofS. Giacomo degli Incurabili (today in Augusta) , remaining there until his death in 1674. He was buried under one of the two organs of the church. [2] De Silvestris is mainly known as the editor of at least twenty-three anthologies of sacred and secular music, printed annually in Bracciano and Rome between 1643 and 1672, and in several cases also reprinted. The editions he produced had considerable success and diffusion since they included, in addition to some of his own compositions, those of the most important chapel masters of the churches of Rome, such as Antonio Maria Abbatini , Giacomo Carissimi , Orazio Benevoli , Francesco Foggia and many others. He also oversaw the r

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