«Princeps musicorum Mediolani»: Antonio Londonio e il mecenatismo musicale nella Milano spagnola
Don Antonio Londonio (1532-1592) was born in Castile and settled
in Milan in the late 1550s. He was both a prominent politician and one of
the main patrons of the arts in Lombardy: musicians, poets, philosophers, and
other artists in Northwest Italy benefited from his protection. Maddalena Casulana,
Pietro Vinci, and Marc’Antonio Ingegneri dedicated madrigal books to him
between 1570 and 1584. These dedications, together with other documents (notarial
acts, collections of poems and letters, the proceedings of the trial in which