buontalenti

Updated: September 1, 2025

Its choruses, which are so many "lyrical voices floating in the air," are very beautiful. It was designed for the theatre, and was acted with great splendour at the court of Ferrara, and a few years later at Mantua, when the well-known artist and architect Buontalenti painted the scenery.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood