FRANCESCA CACCINI, ’Ch’Amor sia nudo, e pur com l’ali al tergo’ (Il primo libro delle Musiche)

- FRANCESCA CACCINI (18 September 1587 † after 1641) SECULAR SONGS FRANCESCA CACCINI, Italian Composer, Singer, Lutenist, Poet, and Music Teacher of the early Baroque era, was also known by the nickname “La Cecchina“, originally given to her by the Florentines and probably a diminutive of “Francesca“. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th