Biography
The son of a cobbler, Giovan Tomaso Lambertini (c 1530-1593) was employed as a singer and music copyist in Bologna and Rome. Lambertini's first book of madrigals was published in Venice in 1560 and based on a sequence of poetic texts by Bernando Tasso, who was working in northern Europe and suffering from acute homesickness due to being separated from his wife and children back in Italy.
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