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Melchiore de Barberiis
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Melchiore de Barberiis (c.1500 - after 1549) was an Italian lutenist. His securely documented legacy centres on a substantial printed lute tablature volume issued in Venice in 1549 by Girolamo Scotto, titled Opera intitolata contina… Intabolatura di lauto… Libro decimo. The title-page presents him as a reverend cleric from Padua and an “excellent” lute player, and the contents advertise a broad practical scope: fantasias, intabulations of vocal repertory, and pieces conceived for performance on one or two lutes. A distinctive feature of this 1549 book is that it also includes a small group of pieces “for playing on the chitara da sette corde” (a seven-course guitar), making it an important early Italian printed witness for guitar repertory as transmitted within a lute-book framework. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.