Antonio Valente ‘cieco’ (blind) – date of birth/death unknown, flourished between 1570-1580 – was a Neapolitan musician, and organist in Sant’Angelo a Nilo in Naples. He is known for his two volumes of keyboard music: lntavolatura de cimbalo… libro primo printed by Giuseppe Cacchio in 1576.1(secular music) and Versi spirituali published in 1580 (religious music – his ‘libro secundo’).
The Intavolatura de cimbalo presents different genres of music: a fantasia, six ricercatas, a Salve Regina on a cantus firmus, four vocal chansons intabulated for keyboard with more or less diminutions, and nine dances, variations and dance/variations on long-living tenors (bass patterns) like the Romanesca or Zefiro (torna). A sort of compendium of the keyboard genres of the period.
The Romanesca theme (sequence / tenor) is treated in full by Elam Rotem on youtube: https://youtu.be/esObNllIA14?si=zkjheEDtBDC9rqA3
From the many performances, I prefer this one:
An image of the original publication. In those days title pages were descriptive, almost a table of content.