“My Lady Emilia”
MARGARITA DE GONZAGA
“Madonna Margarita”
FRANCO MA
“My Lord Prefect”
JULIANO DE MEDICI
“My Lord Magnifico”
AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES OF INTERLOCUTORS
From negatives, made by Premi and by Signor Lanzoni, from originals preserved in the Royal State Archives at Mantua and selected by the Director, Signor Alessandro Luzio.
“All keyed instruments also are pleasing to the ear, because they produce very perfect consonances, and upon them one can play many things that fill the mind with musical delight. And not less charming is the music of the stringed quartet, which is most sweet and exquisite. The human voice lends much ornament and grace to all these instruments, with which I would have our Courtier at least to some degree acquainted, albeit the more he excels with them, the better,—without troubling himself much with those that Minerva forbade to Alcibiades, because it seems that they are ungraceful.[[157]]