Responsories for the Nativity of the Lord, *Venite exultemus*, *Te Deum*, for 3–8 voices, from 1614 (reprinted in 1629), Psalms for Vespers for 3–4 voices from 1620, and Masses, among which we may recall, besides the edition (c. 1600) of three Masses by Palestrina (notably the *Missa Papae Marcelli*, reduced by the composer to four voices), together with a Mass of his own entitled *La Battaglia*, the volume of Masses for 4–6 voices from 1614, containing the *Missa pro defunctis* (later published separately [1630] and recently reissued by F. Pustet in 1865), and others, among which stands out, for example, a *Missa Paulina Burghesia*, dedicated to Paul V: all very close to the pure inspiration of Palestrina, to which the author’s solid contrapuntal and polyphonic training was indebted. Many manuscript compositions are preserved in the libraries of Vienna, Berlin, Brussels, London, Bologna, and Rome.
Felice, elder brother of the foregoing, b. in Rome c. 1560, d. in 1614, perhaps on 26 September. In 1568 he was admitted as a boy singer to the musical chapel of S. Maria Maggiore; in 1575 as a soprano and in 1577 as an alto to the Cappella Giulia, passing immediately thereafter, still as an alto, to the chapel of S. Luigi dei Francesi (1579–80). His artistic formation, which very probably began under his father, was effectively continued by the various maestri di cappella under whom he served as a singer, namely: G. M. Nanino (v.), of whom he repeatedly declared himself a pupil; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; and Suriano. His career as a maestro embraced various fields of activity: from the English College, run by the Jesuits (1585), to the Compagnia di Roma (which would later become the Accademia di S. Cecilia), to the chapel of Duke Giovanni Angelo Altemps, and finally to the Sistine Chapel, where he succeeded Palestrina as papal composer.
Besides various collections of canzonettas and madrigals, he left a large body of sacred music that, after the *Madri-
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c. 1578 was resumed in 1611, when the enterprise was entrusted, on the initiative of Cardinal Del Monte, to Felice A. and Suriano. The printing of this edition was completed by the publisher Raimondi, who had by then obtained the privilege, in 1614 for vol. I (*Proprium de tempore*) and in 1615 for vol. II (*Proprium Sanctorum*), which appeared after A.’s death.
BERNARDINO, brother of Felice and Giovanni Francesco, was likewise a musician, since he appears among the singers directed by Luca Marenzio who took part in the Lenten services of 1595 at the Confraternity of the Most Holy Crucifix in S. Marcello.