1567

Piero da Ricasoli, discussing instrumental virtuosi in Cosimo Bartoli’s Ragionamenti accademici, includes the following 2 trombonists: Bartolomeo, Zaccheria da Bologna, and Lorenzo da Lucca—who “has in his playing a certain grace and lightness, with a manner so pleasing as to make me dumbstruck, beyond which he even handles both a viola and a lute with a marvellous grace” (as quoted by Tim Carter, Music in Late Renaissance 164).