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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Poliziano --> Monteverdi

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When Claudio Monteverdi, the virtual inventor of Italian opera, composed his musical version of "L'Orfeo" (1607), he cut Poliziano's final episides , which recounted Orfeo's turn to homosexuality, and tacked on a happy ending.

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