Marco Fabrizio Caroso

(1526-1620)

Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta (1526/1535 – 1605/1620) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.

His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630. The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton.[1]

Marco Fabrizio Caroso on Spotify

Videos of Lute music from Marco Fabrizio Caroso on Youtube