Monteverdi and His ConstellationAn unconventional, brilliant new biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi from the bestselling biographer and acclaimed conductor John Eliot Gardiner. This book positions Claudio Monteverdi amidst seven leading lights of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Galileo, Bacon, Kepler, Rubens, Shakespeare and Caravaggio. Using Monteverdi as the sun, centre of those six other greats, this book argues that across these tumultuous centuries when science