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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651) was one of the most innovative and original composers in early seventeenth-century Rome, and a virtuoso on the lute and chitarrone, or theorbo. His Second Book of Arias, published in Rome in 1623 for one and two voices, are extraordinary works that reveal both his vivid imagination in setting poetry to music, and his flair for dramatic gestures. Victor Coehlo is on the faculty of the University of Calgary and is an established scholar in the field of Renaissance music. He is the editor of Performance on Lute, Guitar and Vihuela in the Cambridge series of manuals on historical practice and modern interpretation.