cavaliere Antinori 15??-?f1589 Italy, ? / Florence - ?, ?

[musician of noble birth but not named cavalier : Lorenzo Antinori (Florence 1527-1582), interlocutors in his reasoning concerning music 'Lo Antinoro, o vero Ragionamento terzo' were Pierfrancesco Giambullari (Florence 1495-1555) and Piero da Ricasoli, priests of the Medici church of San Lorenzo Florence, where Giovanni Pietro Masaconi was chaplain 1533 until his death January 1573 ; son of Alessandro Antinori (1481-1557) senator and director of Ufficio del Monte Florence, Italy's principal financial institution ; c1549 in Lyon France he married a member of the Florentine Guadagni family]

[some facts of the many cavaliers named Antinori in Florence around 1589, none of them identifiable as composer : 1571 a copy of a letter to his brothers dated Ficalia 10.oct.1571 by cavalier Antinori was printed at the Florence ducal court, mentioning the many cavaliers who died in battle and the proceedings from 10 to 25 October of the army (Armata della Santa Lega under command of Johann of Austria) fighting the Turks, in which he took part ; 1576 cavaliere Antinori was executed by the Medici regime in Florence ; cavalier Antinori from the wine-producing family whose chapel was next to that of the Cavalcanti in Florence ; Gianmaria Mazzucchelli's Scrittori italiani 1753 cites eleven writers named Antinori, one of them named Vincenzo who served Ferdinand I, king of Hungary, in the battle against the Turks before 1562]