G. Stanco, New sources for Carlo Gesualdo's biography, pp. 57 - 110

The author's analysis consents to rebuild the coexistence, in Carlo Gesualdo, of two souls the musician one and the feudatory one. Two implications apparently incompatible but, perhaps, that represent the figure of his existence and of his contradictions. Gesualdo's abilities shown in the administration of his own feuds bring out a "courtly modernity" that is in contrast both with the reality around him and with the stereotype of the intellectual cut off from the world. It's on this model that the coordinates have been traced for a more suitable reflection on the caesuras and/or continuity existing between the two Gesualdian "modernities" the existential one and the creative one.