Les passions des pauvres, instruments créatifs pour Giulio Cesare Croce (1550-1609)

A street singer in Bologna in the second half of the sixteenth century, Giulio Cesare Croce sang about the everyday life of small urban occupations and peasants. The poor—the people who failed to make a living from their labor and those who fell on hard times due to a vice-ridden way of life—provided the source material for his work. Afflicted by conflicting passions, they gave Croce an opportunity to try out new forms of expression.