Ferran Escrivà-Llorca is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Valencia International University (Spain). His research and teaching focus on the Cultural Studies in Early Modern Iberian World of the Habsburgs, historiography and music education, and especially on:material culture (inventories, music libraries and instruments of the period); musical diplomacy and cultural relations between the courts of the Hispanic monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire; the Borgia family; and historiography and the history of music in the Valencian region. He has published widely in these fields, including: ‘On the Trail of a Knight of Santiago: Collecting Music and Mapping Knowledge in Renaissance Europe’ in Music & Letters (2020), with Erika Honisch and Tess Knighton, awarded with the Westrup Prize; The Procession of the Relics of São Roque (Lisbon, 1588): A Royal Entry?’ in Hearing the City in Early Modern Europe (2018); ‘Conversaçiones de Música a finals del segle XVI: el cas de l’acadèmia de Joan de Borja i Castro’ in Scripta (2017); ‘Power, Erudition and Musical Patronage in the Sixteenth Century: Borja’s dynasty and the dukedom of Gandia’ a New Perspectives on Early Music in Spain (2015). Other recent articles concern: music in Gandia in the sixteenth century; the musical life of the most powerful Valencian of the fifteenth century, the Centelles; and soundscape and procession: ‘Soundscapes and Brotherhoods in the Processions of the Redemption of Captives. The Case of Early-Modern Valencia’, in the journal Confraternitas.