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During the 1640s, Giuseppe Zamponi became director of chamber music for the Spanish governor-general of the Low Countries, and his opera Ulisse all’isola di Circe (Brussels, 1650) celebrated the marriage of Philip IV of Spain and Maria Anna of Austria.

Painting: Venus as a Huntress Appears to Aeneas, 1650, by Pietro Berrettini.

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