Scipione Dentice was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella

Scipione Stella

Scipione Stella was a Neapolitan composer. He is to be distinguished from another member of the circle of Carlo Gesualdo, Scipione Dentice....

 (1560 – c. 1620), a member of Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo di Venosa or Gesualdo da Venosa , Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer, and murderer....

's circle. He is also to be distinguished from his grandfather Luigi Dentice

Luigi Dentice

Luigi Dentice was an Italian composer, musical theorist, singer and lutenist who served the powerful Sanseverino family, and was father of Fabrizio Dentice , also a composer and lutenist. He was grandfather of Scipione Dentice .Dentice came from a noble family. When his father died in 1561 he...

, the music theorist, and uncle Fabrizio Dentice

Fabrizio Dentice

Fabrizio Dentice was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player.Fabrizio was the son of Luigi Dentice who served the powerful Sanseverino family and had a great reputation as a singer and lutenist...

, the lutenist.

The two Scipiones were acquainted; the Spanish composer Sebastián Raval

Sebastian Raval

Sebastián Raval was a Spanish composer of vocal and instrumental music. Born in Cartagena, he served as a soldier of the Army of Flanders in Flanders and Sicily. He joined the order of St...

 records that both Scipione Dentice and Scipione Stella were present with Luca Marenzio

Luca Marenzio

Luca Marenzio was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque transformation by Monteverdi...

at the Peretti palace in Rome when he performed.