da Enrico Melozzi | 16/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Gesualdo, Irpinia, 1611. The Neapolitan printer Giovanni Giacomo Carlino moves his workshop into a room in the prince’s castle, at the top of the village. From those presses, in the same year, come three books: the fifth and sixth books of madrigals for five... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 16/10/2026 | Agenda, Melos
Rome, 18 March 2012. The Teatro Valle has been occupied for nine months: on 14 June 2011 actors, musicians, technicians and directors entered the eighteenth-century hall, left without a manager after the abolition of the public body that ran it, and never left. A... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 15/10/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Florence, 1606. From the press of Cristofano Marescotti comes a little book for anyone who wants to play the Spanish guitar without paying a teacher: Girolamo Montesardo’s Nuova inventione d’intavolatura. It is the first Italian book to print two words... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 15/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Mata Hari dancing at the Musée Guimet, Paris, 1905. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Milan, Thursday 4 January 1912. At the Teatro alla Scala the ballet Bacco e Gambrinus is on the bill, music by Romualdo Marenco, choreography by Giovanni Pratesi, revived for the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/10/2026 | Il Sistema, Melos
Pietro Domenico Olivero, The Teatro Regio in Turin, c. 1740. Turin, Palazzo Madama. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In November 2000 the Constitutional Court files judgment number 503. The operative part runs a single line: Legislative Decree no. 134 of 23 April... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
by the Melos Chorus Third and final instalment of our portrait of Giovanni Sollima. A Roman cellist of three centuries ago, and a city that loved music on an immoderate scale. Rome, 3 September 1704. Giovanni Battista Costanzi is born, and his contemporaries will call...
