Barbara Grammeniati is a musicologist and researcher of Renaissance music, dance and court festival. She lectured extensively in Europe and the USA and recently organized the international interdisciplinary symposium "Seventeenth century ballet: a multi-art spectacle" in King's College London, 10 August 2010. Barbara's research interests led her to the libraries and archives of Turin where she discovered Filippo d'Agli � manuscripts and letters which led to the creation of the first translation � of his surviving libretti and an edition of his music. Barbara Grammeniati's original study does not only � explore d ' Agli �' s artistic legacy but also fills a gap in our understanding… of court festivities in seventeenth century Europe.� �