Caccini
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Caccini is the name of several composers and artists from Florence:
- Giulio CacciniGiulio CacciniGiulio Caccini , also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style...
(c.1545–1618), Florentine composer, significant innovator of the early Baroque era - Francesca CacciniFrancesca CacciniFrancesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century...
(1587–1640?), Giulio's daughter, and a well-known opera composer in the early 17th century - Settimia CacciniSettimia CacciniSettimia Caccini was an Italian composer and singer. She was the youngest daughter of composer Giulio Caccini and singer Lucia Gagnolanti. Her mother died when she was very young. She was the sister of Francesca Caccini, also a composer and singer, and Pompeo Caccini, a singer...
(1591–1638?) Giulio's daughter, a singer and occasional composer - Giovanni Battista CacciniGiovanni Battista CacciniGiovanni Battista Caccini was an Italian sculptor from Florence, who worked in a classicising style in the later phase of Mannerism....
(1556 - c.1612/14), Florentine Mannerist sculptor - Tommaso CacciniTommaso CacciniTommaso Caccini was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher.Born in Florence as Cosimo Caccini, he entered into the Dominican order of the Catholic Church as a teenager. Caccini began his career in the monastery of San Marco and gradually became renowned for his passionate sermons...
(1574–1648), Dominican friar who denounced Galileo from the pulpit