Cesare Rinaldi

Cesare Rinaldi (12 December 1559 – 6 February 1636)[1] was one of Bologna's most eminent poets.[2] His verse was set to music as madrigals by Salamone Rossi and the circle of the Gonzaga Court at Mantua.[3] He also wrote verse praising composers, such as Alessandro Striggio.

Portrait of Cesare Rinaldi. From the book "Le glorie degli Incogniti", 1647.

Works

Delle rime di Cesare Rinaldi bolognese: parte sesta al sereniss. Sig. don Cesare d'Este duca di Modona printer Gio. Rossi, 1598 - 129 pages.

Lyrics set as madrigals

Donna se voi m'odiate - set by Alfonso Ferrabosco
Per non mi dir ch'io moia - set by Michelangelo Rossi

References

sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 169.
Carlo Cesare Malvasia (conte), Anne Summerscale Malvasia's Life of the Caracci p367 - 2000 "RINALDI, Cesare: Cesare Rinaldi (1559-1636) was one of Bologna's most eminent poets and was well known throughout Italy."
Joel Newman The madrigals of Salamon de' Rossi 1962 "Cesare Rinaldi,and Rinuccini, all of whom were then living and were at one time or another in some relation to the Gonzaga Court"

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[1] sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 169.

[2] Carlo Cesare Malvasia (conte), Anne Summerscale Malvasia's Life of the Caracci p367 - 2000 "RINALDI, Cesare: Cesare Rinaldi (1559-1636) was one of Bologna's most eminent poets and was well known throughout Italy."

[3] Joel Newman The madrigals of Salamon de' Rossi 1962 "Cesare Rinaldi,and Rinuccini, all of whom were then living and were at one time or another in some relation to the Gonzaga Court"