I have now put on my web page a revised and much expanded version of my study of Bartolotti I have completely redone the musical examples because I now have a better programme for doing staff notation. There are also a few more illustrations of one sort or another including a much better reproduction of the portrait of him from his Secondo Libro. The reproduction in the Minkoff facsimile which everyone copies is awful and desn't give any real idea of what he looked like. In the book itself the engraving is even better.
All this is at [1]http://monicahall.co.uk As ever Monica -- References 1. http://monicahall.co.uk/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html