ABSTRACT
Instances of Florentine patronage outside Florence itself are furnished by the dedications ofLayolle's Contrapunctus of 1528 and ofNaich's Exercitium Seraficum, a madrigal volume of c. 1540, both addressed to members of the Altoviti family (one in Lyons, one in Rome). One might also cite the patronage of Neri Capponi, a Florentine living in Venice in the 1 540s, who according to Antonfrancesco Doni sponsored the musical circlr in which la Pecorina performed and for which Willaert composed; see Doni's dedicatory letter to the tenor part book of his Dialogo della Musica of r 544 (p. 5 in the edition of G. Francesco Malipiero (Vienna, r 965)).
