The bibliography on the Italian secular polyphony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which describes the repertoire in the editions of various authors (compared to that of the books of a single composer) has remained until today the least known, the least up-to-date, despite the efforts of several talented scholars. Relegated to a secondary section from the first Vogel (1892) and authoritatively revised by Alfred Einstein (1962), it was systematically 'baffled' by the musicology due to its varied complexity, with only some rare but partial exception (Lincoln, Lewis, Bernstein). Neither the New Vogel (1977), which had prudently evaded this gigantic repertoire – apart from some strange inclusions (Balbi, Barré, Doni etc.) –, has been...