Festival personnel

Role: Author, Poet
Festivals: Tournament at carnival time in Florence, 1616
Opera performed for the marriage of Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Margherita de'Medici, Florence 1628
Tournament opera for the visit to Florence of Ferderico Ubaldo della Rovere, Duke of Urbino and fiancé of Claudia de'Medici, Florence 1616
Festival Books: Guerra d'amore festa del serenissimo gran duca di Toscana Cosimo secondo, fatta in Firenze il carneuale del 1615. (published Florence, 1615)
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)
Guerra di bellezza. Festa a cauallo fatta in Firenze. Per la venuta del serenissimo principe d'Vrbino. L'ottobre del 1616. (published Florence, 1616)

1630-1694
Role: Author (Lancaster Herald of Arms)
Festivals: Coronation of James II and Mary of Modena, London, 23rd April 1685
Festival Books: The History of the Coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellenet monarch James II, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. and of his most royal consort Queen Mary: solemnized in the Collegiate Church of St Peter in the City of Westminster, on Thursday the 23 of April, being the festival of St George, in the year of our Lord 1685. (published London, 1687)
Herald and genealogist.
Held Lancaster Herald of Arms in ordinary 1676-89

aka Antonio Cordiani (the younger)
1484-1546
Role: Architect
Festivals: 1536 entries of Charles V into Rome, Siena and Florence
Festival Books: Ordine pompe, apparati, et cerimonie, delle solenne intrate, di Carlo V Imp[eratore] sempre aug[usto] nella citta di Roma, Siena, et Fiorenza. (published Florence, 1536)
In Rome, pupil of Bramante.
Chief architect of S. Peter's Basilica in Rome from 1520-.

Role: Printer
Festivals: Christening in Valladolid of Anna of Austria, the Spanish Infanta, Valladolid, 7th October 1601
Festival Books: Relación de la orden que se tuuo en el bautismo de la señora Infanta, hija primogenita del Inuictissimo Rey Don Felipe III nuestro señor en Valladolid a siete de Otubre, (published Valladolid, 1602)

Role: Author
Festivals: Entry of Louis XIII into Arles, 29th October 1622
Festival Books: Entree de Loys XIII. Roy de France et de Navarre, dans sa ville d'Arles, le vingt-neufiesme octobre mil six cens vingt-deux. (published Avignon, 1623)

1500-1564
Role: Author, Humanist
Festivals: Entry of Henri II and Catherine de'Medici into Lyons, 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)
ET I (p.9) French poet.
Centre of Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived from Plato and partly from Petrarch.

aka Julius Caesar Scalinger, Giulio Cesare Scala
1484-1558
Role: Secondary Author
Festivals: Entry of Philip II into Antwerp, 10th September 1549
Festival Books: Le triumphe d'Anuers, faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaign[e]. (published Antwerp, 1550)
Italian scholar and physician, spending a major part of his career in France.
Defended Aristotelianism against new learning.

Role: Architect
Festivals: Procession to the Ducal Palace of Morosina Morosinim after her coronation as Dogess of Venice, 1597
Festival Books: Lettera nella quale si descrive l'ingresso nel palazzo ducale della serenissima Morosina Morosini Grimani prencipessa di Vinetia. (published Venice, 1597)

Role: Printer
Festivals: Wedding in Hechingen of Johann Georg, Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Franziska Wild-und Rheingrafin von Salm, Hechingen 1598
Festiva Books: Drey schöne und lustige Bücher von der Hohen Zollerischen Hochzeit welcher gestalt: ...(published Augsburg 1599)

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-Drumstadt, 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)
Librarian (see Anthony John Harper German secular song-books of the mid-seventeenth century.)