Trent had just finished condemning polyphonic practice, for the same supposed fault (it was too hard to understand the sung text), but for spiritual rather than secular reasons. References and further reading "Camerata", "Giovanni de Bardi" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. External links Francesca Chiarelli at goldsmiths.ac.uk Retrieved 2011-12-02 1534 births 1612 deaths Writers from Florence Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Italian male writers Renaissance composers Papal chamberlains Musicians from Florence