Massimo Ossi

Massimo Ossi, Associate Professor of Musicology. Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989. Research interests include early seventeenth-century Italian music theory and aesthetics; Italian lyric poetry, 1570-1650, especially Battista Guarini; and the Italian madrigal, 1550-1650. Publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Studi Musicali, the revised edition of the New Grove, the new MGG, and other encyclopedias, collections of essays and conference proceedings. General editor of the series Music at the Courts of Italy (Broude). Divining the Oracle: Aspects of Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica (Chicago, 2003). Awards from National Endowment for the Humanities, Villa I Tatti, and the American Musicological Society for his article "Claudio Monteverdi's ordine novo, bello et gustevole."