Dr Peter Martens provides the first complete edited English translation of, and commentary on, Isaac Vossius’s De poematum cantu et viribus rythmi, a late seventeenth-century work of Continental musical humanism. plays an important but poorly understood role in the continued development of rhythmopoeia;
A full translation and accompanying discussion of Vossius’s own sources and musical influences allows English-language students and scholars to access and study this work in the depth and to the degree it deserves.