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BIOGRAPHY Little is known about his early life, but he is known to have spent part of it in Rome and part in Lorraine in the service of Charles Of Guise . In 1562 , probably with his uncle, he came to England for the first time, where he found employment with Elizabeth I . Throughout his life he made periodic trips to Italy, not without controversy, for evidently neither the Pope nor the Inquisition fully approved of his spending time in England, which was in the late 16th Century actively at war with Roman Catholic countries. While in England, he lost his Italian inheritance, and while away in Italy he was charged with certain crimes in England (including robbing and killing another foreigner). While he was successful in clearing his name, he left England in 1578 and never returned; he died in Bologna . Many have said that he was a secret service agent for Elizabeth, working during a time when such intelligence was desperately needed; however, little more than circumstantial evidence has ever been produced on this allegation. He was certainly unusually well-paid for a musician at the court of Elizabeth. Attempts by Elizabeth to get him to return to England after 1580 were fruitless. MUSIC Ferrabosco brought the madrigal to England. While he did not start the madrigal craze there--that really began in used to describe his work when he published several of his compositions in a collection of 1598 , ten years after his death. In addition to the madrigals, Ferrabosco wrote sacred music, including s, Pavan s, Galliard s, In Nomine s, Passamezzo s, for a variety of instrumental combinations including Lute and Viol s. |
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