Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (c. 1645–post 1701) has begun to receive renewed scholarly attention, revealing a legacy that, until recently, remained largely overlooked. This monograph offers the first comprehensive study of Lonati’s life and works, combining a reconstruction of his remarkable international career – as a composer, violinist, and singer – with an in-depth examination of his vocal and instrumental output. It also introduces new critical tools and conceptual approaches applicable more broadly to the study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century musical repertoire. The volume includes numerous illustrations and musical examples, as well as the first thematic catalogue of Lonati’s works.

Federico Lanzellotti  is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel, within the framework of the SNSF Project NightMuse. After completing his PhD at the universities of Bologna and Madrid, he became a research fellow at the University of Padua and the Venice Conservatoire. He is currently editing two volumes for the opera omnia of Giovanni Bononcini (Fondazione Arcadia) and Giuseppe Tartini (Bärenreiter), and he is also a contributor to DEUMM online. His primary research interests are in music philology and dramaturgy, particularly in seventeenth and eighteenth-century repertoire, but also in contemporary music.