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Lorenzini
6+ albums
italianClassicalearly baroque16th century
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(d ?Rome, ?Nov 23, 1608). Italian lutenist and composer. While his origins and his possible identification as the ‘Cavaliere del liuto’ cannot be confirmed, it is likely that most of the various references to a late 16th-century and early 17th-century lutenist by the name of Lorenzino refer to the same person. The first record refers to a lutenist called Lorenzino who was in the service of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este in Ferrara and Tivoli in 1570–71. He was probably Lorenzino Trajetti (d Rome, 20 July 1590), the son of Franciscus ‘Gallus Belgicus’; he died in Rome in his house in the via dell'Olmo (now via Vicolo del Lento), leaving to his widow, Lucrezia Paolini, ‘tre liuti usati’ and ‘un chitarrone usato’, among other possessions (Pesci, 1997). According to Valdrighi, a ‘Lorenzino Bolognese’, a ‘singer’ in the service of the Farnese family in Parma between 1573 and 1586, studied as a page with the celebrated Neapolitan Fabrizio Dentice (who served at the Farnese court in both Rome and Parma). On 12 August 1570 a ‘Lorenzino dai Liuti’ was called for by the Duke of Mantua, but he had already left Rome in the retinue of the Prince of Bisignano (and was possibly involved in the theatrical celebrations organized the same year in Naples for the prince by Dentice). In 1586 (when the ‘Bolognese’ Lorenzino left the service of the Farnese family), a ‘Cavaliere del liuto’ appears for the first time in the register of house musicians of Cardinal Montalto (Alessandro Peretti) in Rome. Thi