A summit of the madrigal art by Gesualdo!Even without his bloody vengeance against his unfaithful wife and her lover, Don Carlo Gesualdo di Venosa would today be a great musician thanks to his uncompromising chromatic writing style. The fifth book of madrigals from 1611 represents, along with the sixth, an undisputed peak of the Mannerist art of the late Renaissance madrigal. Who could better account for it than La Venexiana?