Philippe Verdelot (1480 to 1485–1530 to 1540)[1][2] was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He is commonly considered to be the father of the Italian madrigal, and certainly was one of its earliest and most prolific composers; in addition he was prominent in the musical life of Florence during the period after the recapture of the city by the Medici from the followers of Girolamo Savonarola.
- ^ Donald Lee Hersh (1963). Verdelot and the Early Madrigal: Text. D.L. Hersh. p. 587.
- ^ John Paxton; Sheila Fairfield (1980). Chronology of culture: a chronology of literature, dramatic arts, music, architecture, three-dimensional art, and visual arts from 3000 B.C. to the present. Van Nostrand Reinhold. ISBN 978-0-442-27004-9.