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| 1600 | Fabritio Caroso's The Nobility of Ladies is printed at Venice. The work treats the rules dancers must master for success on the ballroom floor and includes a number of choreographies for popular dances of the day. It will be re-issued in a second edition in 1605. |
| The marriage of King Henri IV to Marie de Medici is celebrated at Florence. As part of the festivities an opera is performed with a series of interludes or intermedi mounted between the acts. These intermedi require more than 100 performers and 1,000 men to control the elaborate stage machinery. Dance figures prominently throughout the production. | |
| 1602 | Cesare Negri publishes the second of his dance manuals at Venice entitled The Grace of Love. Negri's work will be republished two years later in a new edition and, with Caroso's The Nobility of Ladies, will dominate ballroom dancing styles in courtly societies... |
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