Aquilino Coppini [SEP] date of death
Aquilino Coppini
Aquilino Coppini (died 1629) was an Italian musician and lyricist. While in the service of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, he specialized in creating sacred "contrafacta" of secular madrigals. His "contrafacta" are of interest for their concentration on Monteverdi's madrigals (especially the third, fourth and fifth books) and for the form in which he treats the poetic text. Instead of simply replacing the original text with a liturgical one, he would make careful translations which reproduce the phonemes, accents and rhythms of the
nominibus et numero angelorum" (1628).
Legacy.
Federico Borromeo appears as a character in Alessandro Manzoni’s novel "The Betrothed" ("I promessi sposi"), in which he is characterized as an intelligent humanist and saintly servant of Christ, serving the people of Milan unselfishly during the 1630 plague. In 1685 the citizens of Milan erected a marble statue of him next to the gates of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
While at the service of Federico Borromeo, Aquilino Coppini published in 1607 his book of