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Resurrecting the Italian madrigal: Two-day festival at UMass shines spotlight on this secular music form, from the Renaissance-
Four hundred years after Renaissance music’s fall from favor, Emiliano Ricciardi is on a mission to save it from extinction.Ricciardi has organized an Italian Madrigal Festival at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is an assistant…