He dedicated his great volume of Latin church music to Pope Paul V, hoping to get his son Francesco into the Roman Seminary.  
He dedicated his great volume of Latin church music to Pope Paul V, hoping to get his son Francesco into the Roman Seminary.  He ended his life as maestro di capella of St. Mark's in Venice, but he spent his prime years at the court of the Gonzagas in Mantua, composing secular operas.  One of these is tinged with the grief he felt for his ailing wife Claudia, and was performed at the Carnival of 1607.  FTP, name the composer of The Return of Ulysses, the Coronation of Poppaea, and Orfeo.
He dedicated his great volume of Latin church music to Pope Paul V, hoping to get his son Francesco into the Roman Seminary.  
Claudio Monteverdi