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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Claudio Monteverdi, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, Francois d'Aguilon, John Parkinson, Sebald de Weert, Date Masamune, Francis de Sales, Sanada Yukimura, Thomas Campion, Tachibana Muneshige, Thomas Lake, Thomas Bates, Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, 1st Count of Gondomar, Thomas Nashe, Tioboid na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo, Arima Harunobu, Temperance Flowerdew, Willem Usselincx, William Alabaster, Carlos Coloma, Pierre Biard, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Cornelius a Lapide, John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Jindrich Matyas Thurn, Christoph Demantius, Richard Crakanthorpe, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Anne Line, Jacob van Heemskerk, Yeo U-gil, Robert Drury, Francis Holyoake, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, Gyorgy Thurzo, Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, Valens Acidalius, Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Nemours, Edmund Gennings, Constantine I of Kakheti, Richard Brett, Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe, Marcin Wadowita, Jacques Clement, Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, Thomas Felton, Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, Anne de Xainctonge, Margherita Farnese, John Salusbury, Thomas Tichborne, Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton, Nicolas Cordier, Jacob Ulfeldt, John Aglionby, Leke Matrenga, Ban Naoyuki, Jerome de Angelis, Charles Fairfax, Francesco degli Angeli, Nicolas Forme, Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi, Torii Tadamasa, Eochaidh O hEoghusa, Akizuki Tanenaga, Anthony Copley, Jan Szcz sny Herburt, Bzovius, Lorenzo Allegri, Luigi Caponaro, Jan van Stirum. Excerpt: Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (Italian pronunciation: 15 May 1567 (baptized) - 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer. Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition - the her...