Previous posts for February 5th are here: Ole Bull (2020), Barrett Strong; Christian Gottlob Neefe (2021), Grażyna Bacewicz (2022), Ole Bull (2023), Christian Gottlob Neefe (2024), and Ole Bull (2025)
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Giovanni de' Bardi (5 February 1534 – September 1612) was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier. He supported the famous Florentine Camerata.
Better Late Than Never
Raise you beer, or champagne, or Bacardi,
And toast Giovanni de' Bardi,
Whose work in old Florence
Emphatically warrants
This verse, which is several years tardy.
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Revival
Intrigued by ancient descriptions of the emotional and moral effect of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, which they presumed to be sung as a single line to a simple instrumental accompaniment, the Camerata proposed creating a new kind of music. – Wikipedia, s.v. "Florentine Camerata"
In Giovanni de' Bardi's critique
The Renaissance drama was weak,
But attempts to restore
The catharsis of yore,
Had an upshot more Tuscan than Greek.
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