Festival personnel

Role: Poet, Orator
Festivals: Entry into Norwich of Elizabeth I, Norwich 1578
Festival Books: The ioyfull receyuing of the Queenes most excellent maiestie into hir highnesse Citie of Norwich: the things done in the time of hir abode there: and the dolor of the Citie at hir departure. (published London [1578?])
Master of grammar school.

Role: Fireworks engineer
Festivals: Vist to Mantua of Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria, his brother Cardinal Sigismund Franz, Bishop of Augsburg, and his wife, Anna de'Medici, Mantua 1652
Festival Books:Feste celebrate in Mantoua alla venuta de serenissii arciduchi Ferdinando Carlo, e Sigismondo Francesco d'Austria, et arciduchessa Anna Medici, il carneuale dell'anno 1652. (published Mantua, 1652)
Structure designed to resemble the Argonauts' ship armed with fireworks.

c.1621-1677
Role: Composer
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)
English baroque composer and musical theorist.
Mentor of Henry Purcell.
Organist of Her Majesty's Chapel, composer of wind music and violins for Charles II.
Works: Cupid and Death with Christopher Gibbons
1653 masque.
1656 quintet of composers for The Siege of Rhodes, breathrough opera by Sir William Davenant.
Publications: Melothesia 1673 treatise on musical theory.

c.1635-1695
Role: Engraver
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 (London, 1661)
The Entertainment of his most excellent majestie Charles II, in his passage through the city of London to his coronation: containing an exact accompt of the whole solemnity; the Triumphal Arches, and Cavalcade, delineated in Sculpture; the Speeches and Impresses illustrated from antiquity. (published London, 1662)
Artist associated with 171 portraits (National Portrait Gallery.)
1669 public sculptor for Oxford University.
Works: 1662 engraved title page for The Book of Common Prayer.
1675 Oxonia Illustrata drew and engraved birds' eye view of Oxford colleges.
1690 Camtabrigia Illustrata Cambridge University the same, became engraver to university.

Role: Engineer, Scene Painter
Festivals: Wedding for Odoardo II Farnese, Duke of Parma and Dorothea Sophia, Princess of Pfalz-Neuberg, Parma, May 1690
Ballet performed in Parma for the wedding of Odoardo II Farnese and Dorothea Sophia, Princess of Pflaz-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)
L'età dell'oro, introduzione al balletto della serenissima signora principessa Margherita, e delle signore dame ... .(published Piacenza, 1690)

Role: Librettist (ballet), Author
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: Author
Festivals: Journey of Henri III through Italy on the occasion of his accession to the French throne, Venice 1574
Festival Books: Successi del viaggio d'Henrico III. Christianiss. re di Francia, e di Polonia, dalla sua partita di Craccovia fino all'arrivo in Turino. (published Venice, 1574)
ET I (p.106) Author of an account of the travels of Henri III of France.
Manuscript description of whole voyage for Cardinal Ferdinando de'Medici (later Ferdinando I)

Role: Printer
Festivals: Entry of Francis I into Blois, 1515
Festival Books: El triumpho et honore fatto al christianissimo re di Franza quando entro nella citta de Blessi. (published [Venice][1515])
Venetian printer in the early 1500s.

Role: Printer
Festivals: Tournament with running at the ring and at the head, held in Paris by Louis XIV, Paris 1662
Festivities held at Versailles by Louis XIV, King of France, Versailles 1664
Celebration of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle held at Versailles by Louis XIV, King of France, Versailles 1668
Victory celebrations held by Louis XIV on his return from the conquest of France-Comté, Versailles 1674
Festival Books: Courses de testes et de bague faittes par le roy et par les princes et seigneurs de sa cour en l'année 1662. (published Paris, 1670)
Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée. Course de bague; collation ornée de machines; comedie, meslée de danse et de musique; ballet du palais d'Alcine; feu d'artifice: et autres festes galantes et magnifiques, faites par le roy a Versailles, le VII. may M.DC.LXIV. et continuées plusieurs autres jours. (published Paris, 1674)
Relation de la feste de Versailles. Du 18. juilllet mil six cens soixante-hiuit. (published Paris, 1679)
Les divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy a toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la France-Comté en l'année M.DC.LXXIV. (published Paris, 1676)

aka Jean-Baptiste Machaud (Machâult)
1591-1680
Role: Author
Festivals: Entry into Paris of Louis XIII and victory celebrations after the taking of La Rochelle, Paris 1628
Festival Books: Eloges et discours sur la triomphante reception du roy en sa ville de Paris apres la reduction de la Rochelle ... .(published Paris, 1629)
ET II (pgs. 128-30,136,141,143) French jesuit author.