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Learn more- Works and life of the Renaissance musician Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigals and uxorious. Carlo Gesualdo: Visionary? Revolutionary? Crazy? S & M? Solipsist? Victim? Weak? Schizophrenic? Persecuted? Cruel? Melancholy? No answer except that of his music, in which these aspects blend seamlessly, such as the overlapping of the counterpoint lines. Music can express madness and, at the same time, harmonize internal disagreements and the world. Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, one of the greatest musicians of the late Renaissance and of all times, grandson of San Carlo Borromeo and Cardinal Alfonso Gesualdo, belonging to one of the most prominent families of the time, was a tormented man, murderer for reasons of honor of his wife and lover, husband in second wedding of Leonora D'Este, excellent musician who spent his time. He survived the death of his two children, died in torment in his sumptuous castle in the mountains of Irpinia, a land that retains in its fiefs the vestiges of the houses that belonged to him. He composed 6 books of 5-voice madrigals and cycles of sacred music (Responsoria and Sacrae Cantiones) which for over four centuries have interested and inspired many composers. Like his biographical story, amplified and colored by popular imagination, which has inspired novels, films, musicals, songs, painters and countless intellectuals from every era. A polyphony of "plots" are counterpointed in the film: first of all the musical one, then the historical, procedural, iconography, musicological, documentary, fiction and popular mythology. (F. L.)
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