Festival personnel

Role: Librettist, Author
Festivals: Wedding in Florence of Ferdinando II de'Medici and Vittoria della Rovere, Florence 1637
Festival Books: Le nozze degli dei favola ... rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de sereniss. gran duchi di Toschana ... .(published Florence, 1647)
Le nozze degli dei
Libretto for masque celebrating wedding of Vulcan and Venus.
Bishop of Muro.

1502-1571
Role: Composer
Festivals: Wedding in Florence of Cosimo I de'Medici and Eleanora of Toledo, Florence 1539
Wedding of Francesco I de'Medici and Joanna of Austria, Florence 1565
Festival Books: Apparato et feste nelle nozze dello illustrissimo signor duca di Firenze [et] della duchessa sua consorte, con le sue stanze, madriali, comedia, [et] intermedij, in quelle recitati. (Florence, 1539)
Descrizione dell'apparato della comedia et intermedii d'essa recitata in Firenze ... nelle reale nozze dell'illustriss[imo] ... don Francesco Medici ... [et] della regina Giouanna d'Austria ... (published Florence, 1566)
ET I (p.49) Organist and Maestro di capelia at the Medici Court from 1542.
Early composer of madrigals.
Cosimo I patron of arts and music and Corteccia's employer.

c.1522-1595
Role: Illustrator
Festivals: Ballet performed at the court of Catherine de'Medici on the occassion of Henri III's accession to the French throne, Paris 1573
Festival Books: Magnificentissimi spectaculi, a regina regum matre in hortis suburbanis editi, in Henrici regis Poloniae inuictissimi nuper renunciati gratulationem, Descriptio. (published Paris, 1573)
Jehan Cousin the younger son of Jean Cousin the elder, famous painter and sculptor.

Role: Printer
Festivals: Entry of Henri IV into Rouen, 16th-24th October 1596
Festival Books: Discours de la ioyeuse et triomphante entree de ... prince Henry IIII ... faicte en sa ville de Rouën ... .(published Rouen, 1596)

Role: Ballet master
Festivals: Wedding of Odoardo II Farnese, Duke of Parma and Dorothea Sophia, Princess of Pfalz-Neuberg, Parma, May 1690
Festival Books: Descritione delle feste fatte eseguire nella ... città di Parma ... per le nozze del serenissimo principe Odoardo Farnese ... con la serenissima principessa Dorotea Sofia ... (published Parma, 1690)

Role: Painter
Festivals: Coronation of Charles II, London 1661
Festival Books: The Relation of his Majesties entertainment passing through the City of London to his Coronation: with a description of the Triumphal Arches and solemnity (published London, 1661)

Role: Engraver
Festivals: Visit to Venice of Ernst August, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Venice 1685
Festival Books: Giuochi festiui, e militari, danze, serenate, machine, boscareccia artificiosa, regatta solenne, et altri sontuosi apprestamenti di allegrezza esposti alla sodisfattione uniuersale dalla generosità dell'A. S. d'Ernesto Augusto duca di Brunsuich ... (published Venice, 1686)

Role: Printer
Festivals: Coronation and entry into Paris of Catherine de'Medici, Paris, 10th June 1549
Festival Books: C'est l'ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France (published Paris, 1549)

1562-1619
Role: Author
Festivals: Investiture of Prince Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, London 1610
Festival Books: Tethys Festival: or, The Queenes Wake. (published London, 1610)
Wrote the masque Tethys Festival.
English poet and historian, wrote masques such as A Vision of Twelve Goddesses.

Role: Printer
Festivals: 1535 Entry of Charles V into Naples, 1535
Festival Books: Il triomphale apparato per la entrata de la cesarea maesta in Napoli: co[n] tutte le particolarita [et] archi triomphali [et] statue antiche cosa bellissima. (published [n.p.][1535?])