Peter Lupo

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Peter Lupo was a Jewish-Italian viol player and composer active for 40 years or more at the court of Elizabeth I of England. His brother Joseph and their father Ambrose also served as court musicians. Born in Venice to Ambrose and his first wife Lucia, he and Joseph first went to Antwerp (where Peter joined the musicians' guild on 20 August 1557, married his first wife Koven or Katherine, and had his first child) before moving to England to join the royal viol consort. There, in 1567, Peter succeeded Albert of Venice, another Italian who had died on 17 January 1555. His nephew Thomas Lupo the elder and son Thomas Lupo the younger also became court musicians.[1]

Royal gifts to Peter included "a payr of perfumed gloves" and "v songe books".[2]