Iain Fenlon is Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College. He has been affiliated with a number of academic institutions around the world including Harvard University, All Souls College, Oxford, New College, Oxford, the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and the University of Bologna. Among his books are a two-volume study, Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua (1980), The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century (with James Haar, 1989) and Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy (2003). His most recent book is The Cerem...