Scipione Dentice

Scipione Dentice (29 January 1560 – 21 April 1633) was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He published 5 collections of five-voice madrigals (1591, 1596, 1598, 1602, 1607). He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella (1560 – c. 1620), a member of Carlo Gesualdo's circle. He is also to be distinguished from his grandfather Luigi Dentice, the music theorist, and uncle Fabrizio Dentice, the lutenist. The two