ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI: MUSIC-DRAMATIC PRINTS IN THE 17TH CENTURY

Abstract

The name of the Scarlatti family has known various ways of writing, being noted in the registers of the time as "Scarlata, Sgarlata", a name considered common in the area of Sicily, an important area in terms of family genealogy at the beginning of the 18th century. The oldest document attests that Pietro Scarlatti, father of Alessandro Scarlatti, married Eleonora d'Amato in 1658 in Palermo. Although there are no precise dates, it seems that this was the family lineage of the composer Vincentius Amatus, maestro di cappella at the Palermo Cathedral. Of the eight children he had, five were well-known musicians, a similar situation in the case of his son, Alessandro Scarlatti who had ten children, two of whom become musicians and one of the girls, Flaminia, becomes a singer who only works in circles elevated.