Abstract
Vincenzo Galilei (late 1520s–1591), father of the famous astronomer Galileo and a prolific member of Giovanni de’ Bardi’s Florentine Camerata, was a seminal figure not only in the development of the late Renaissance lute style, but also in that of early Baroque music. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that his ground-breaking collection of solo lute music, entitled Libro d’intavolatura di liuto (1584), demonstrated the practical benefits of a ‘well-tempered’ tuning system 138 years before J. S. Bach’s Well-tempered clavier . Žak Ozmo argues that the organization of the collection is indicative of Galilei’s (and his contemporaries’) advocacy for equal temperament.
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