Music at a Florentine Convent - The Biffoli-Sostegni Manuscript and Suor Maria Celeste Galilei

The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only surviving volume of sixteenth-century convent polyphony. This Element uses archival sources related to San Matteo to create a historical context for the manuscript's music and the lives of the nuns for whom it was written.