Andrea Bombi (ES), PhD by the Universidad de Zaragoza, is professor of Italian language and literature at the Universitat de València, and has taught music history in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. He has published several essays and editions on the Italian Renaissance madrigal. His research currently focuses on Spanish vocal music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He recently published the monograph Entre tradición y modernidad: El italianismo musical en Valencia (2012). His interest in music historiography issues has materialized in the publication of the volumes Música y cultura urbana en la Edad Moderna (2005) and Pasados presentes: Tradiciones historiográficas en la musicología europea (2015).