The music you are listening to is "Se In Questo Scolorito"
by Giulio Romolo Caccini. Caccini's music is second to Peri's music (modeled
by Claudio Monteverdi) as "Seconda prattica". This music was
considered to be the beginning of modern opera, as now poetry could be set
to music with a new, Humanist theory of rhetoric tacens, and not the old,
inflexible, strictly hierarchical Scholastic view of reality.
The names of towns, seas and rivers are easier to read in this map.
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Ranum, Patricia M.; "The Harmonic Orator: The Phrasing and Rhgetoric of the
Melody in French Baroque Airs", Pendragon Press Musicological Series, 2001, p. 39
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