Nobilta di Dame: A Treatise on Courtly Dance Together with the Choreography and Music of 49 Dances Translated from the 1600 Edition

Fabritio Caroso was dancing master to some of the greatest princely families of Italy, and Nobilt'a di dame, his sumptuous collection of ballroom dances and their music, reflects an age that believed that the person of high rank should be a work of art, uniting strength and beauty. Caroso's detailed instructions (including rules for steps, style and etiquetter, and forty-eight actual choreographies) are unequalled by any contemporary manual in their specificity and clarity. Most dances are preceeded by an engraving showing the opening position and illustrating many aspects of dress, posture, and gesture. A full scholarly apparatus, giving new information unavailable elsewhere, makes the book even more valuable to dancers and to students of dance and music at the junction of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.Caroso, Fabritio is the author of 'Nobilta di Dame: A Treatise on Courtly Dance Together with the Choreography and Music of 49 Dances Translated from the 1600 Edition', published 1984 under ISBN 9780193119178 and ISBN 019311917X.