Lucia QuincianiLucia Quinciani was an Italian composer.Life and musicShe is the earliest known published female composer of monody. She is known only by one composition, a setting of "Udite lagrimosi spirti d’Averno, udite", from Giovanni [Battista Guarini]'s Il pastor fido, found in Marcantonio Negri's Affetti amorosi second volume, in which Negri refers to Quinciani as his student. She may have worked in Venice or Verona.