Night and deceit : Verdelot's Machiavelli -- The desiring subject, or subject to desire : Arcadelt -- Radical inwardness : Willaert's Musica nova -- The prisonhouse of mode : Cipriano de Rore -- The Coney Island of the madrigal : Wert and Marenzio -- The luxury of solipsism : Gesualdo -- The Mirtillo/Amarilli controversy : Monteverdi -- I modi.