1567—Venice, Italy

Piero da Ricasoli, discussing instrumental virtuosi in Cosimo Bartoli’s Ragionamenti accademici, names 3 trombonists: Bartolomeo, Zaccheria da Bologna, and Lorenzo da Lucca. Ricasoli comments specifically that Lorenzo da Lucca “has in his playing a certain grace and lightness [grazia et una leggiadria] with a manner so pleasing as to make me dumbstruck” (Haar, Cosimo Bartoli). This trombonist, Lorenzo da Lucca, is presumably the same trombonist who had performed with Benvenuto Cellini for the pope in 1524 (see above).