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TIL that in his letter of 1637 to the Procurators of San Marco, Monteverdi complains that the bass Aldegati, in front of a congregation shouted, “The Director of Music comes from a brood of cut-throat bastards, a thieving, fucking, he-goat… and I shit on him and whoever protects him.”

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