Alessandro Aglione

Alessandro Aglione (* before 1599 in Spoltore (Abruzzo); † after 1621 ) was an Italian composer and clergyman at the transition between the music of the Renaissance and that of the early Baroque. Alessandro Aglione was born in Spoltore , in the Italian region of Abruzzo , in the second half of the 16th century . His family had benefited from the economic and social changes of the time and achieved a certain level of prosperity. Aglione joined the Dominican order, which founded numerous new monasteries during the Counter-Reformation period.