Festival personnel

1582-1643
Role: Composer (Opera)
Festivals: Opera performed for the marriage of Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Margherita de'Medici, Florence 1628
Festival Books: La flora o vero il Natal de'fiori, fauola d'Andrea Saluadori, rappresentata in musica recitativa nel teatro del serenissimo gran duca, per le reali nozze del serenissimo Odoardo Farnese e della serenissima Margherita di Toscana ... .(published Florence, 1628)
ET I (pgs.61-3,67) Italian opera composer.
Early Baroque composer, significant in early history of opera and development of solo and concerted madrigal.
1607 in Mantua wrote music for Gonzaga family, including operatic setting of Dafne.
1609 Maestro di cappella in Florence at Compagnia dell'Arcangelo Raffaello and at court, position held for 35 years.

1587-1646
Role: Author
Festivals: 1622 entry into Aix-en-Provence of Louis XIII, Aix-en-Provence 1622
Festival Books: Discours sur les arcs triumphaux dressés en la ville d'Aix à l'heureuse arriué e de tres-chrestien ... monarque Louys XIII. roy de France [et] de Nauarre. (published Aix, 1624)

1576-1650
Role: Engraver
Festivals: Entry of Maria de'Medici into Mons, Brussels and Antwerp, 1631
Festival Books: Histoire curieuse de tout ce qui c'est passé a l'entree de la reyne mere du roy treschrestien dans les villes des Pays Bas. (published Antwerp, 1632)
Known for his engravings after Rubens.

Role: Printer
Festivals: Tournament to celebrate the 1559 wedding of Elisabeth de Valois and Philip II, Paris 1559
Festival Books: Warhafftige Newe Zeittung von dem Großmechtigen König zu Franckreich Wie seine Königliche Maiestat zu Pariß im Thurnier von einem Edelmann unnd Capitan beschedigt worden den Eylfften tag des Hewmonats dieses Neun und fünffzigsten Jars durch ein zuschlahendt tödtlich Fieber in Gott seliglich verschieden [etc] (published Nuremberg, [1559])

Role: Author
Festivals: Coronation of Charles V as King of Spain in Valldolid, 8th February, 1517
Festival Books: Le couronnement du trespuissant et tresredoubte roy catholique Charles par la grace de dieu roy despaigne en sa bon[n]e ville de Valladolif. (published [Antwerp?], 1517)

aka. Geradus Novomagnus
1482-1542
Role: Author
Festivals: Exequies for Ferdinand the Catholic in Brussels, 1516
Festival Books: Pompa exequiarum Catholici Hispaniarum regis Ferdonandi Aui Materni Illustrissimi Hispaniaru[m] Regis Caroli, Archiducis Austriae, Ducis Burgundiae [et]c. (published [Brussels],1516)

Role: Engraver
Festivals: Election and coronation in Frankfurt-am-Main of Matthias I (Matthias II, King of Hungary) as Holy Roman Emperor and of his wife Anne, Archduchess of Austria, Frankfurt-am-Main 1612
Festival Books: Electio et coronatio sereniss. potentiss. et invictiss. principis ... Matthiae I. electi rom. imperat. semper augusti etc. eiusq. sereniss. coniugis Annae Austriacae etc. (published Frankfurt-am-Main, 1612)

Role: Author
Festivals: Celebrations in Dresden for the 70th birthday of Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, and the 50th birthday of his son-in-law Georg II, Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt, Dresden 1655
Festival Books: Entwurf Derer Chur- und Hoch-Fürstlichen Ergetzlichkeiten welche an Denen Chur- und Hoch-Fürstlichen Ein- und Zusammenkunften Bey gleich mit eingefallen hochgewüntscheten Des ... Herrn Johann Georgens Hertzogen zu Sachsen ... und auch des ... Herrn Georgens Land Grafens zu Hessen ... Geburts-Tagen ... auf dem Schlosse zu Dressden sing vorstellig gemachet. (published Dresden, 1655)

1498-1563
Role: Poet
Festivals: Wedding in Florence of Cosimo I de'Medici and Eleanora of Toledo, Florence 1539
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. (published Florence, 1539)
Florentine humanist and man of letters.
Publications: Caprici del bottaio and La Circe 1540s.
Plays: La sporta 1543, L'errore 1556.

Role: Carpenter
Festivals: Entry of Henri II and Catherine de'Medici into Lyons, September 1548
Festival Books: La magnificence de la superbe et triumphante entree de la noble [et] antique cité de Lyon faicte au treschrestien roy de France Henry deuxiesme de ce nom, et à la royne Catherine son espouse ...(published Lyons, 1549)