Giordano Mastrocola is an Associate researcher at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. He received his doctoral degree at the Università degli Studi di Firenze in 2007 (La committenza musicale del cardinal Ferdinando de Medici, 1563-1587). In 2009-2012, he was a member of the FABRICA research group (Agence Nationale de la Recherche – Université de Toulouse). In 2013-2014 he was Florence Gould fellow at the Villa I Tatti (The Harvard university Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and (in 2014-2015) he was chargé de recherche at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours. He taught at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon (2017-2018). He is the author of a monograph about the madrigalist Girolamo Vespa da Napoli with a critical edition of his Primo libro di madrigali (Olschki, 2005) and of an extensive essay on Vicente Lusitano (edited in Chanter sur le livre à la Renaissance, Brepols, 2013). His research interest are about Italian Renaissance music patronage, Renaissance music theory and sacred music in the XVI century Florence.