 He may have met the duke through Giulio Cesare Brancaccio, whose translation and commentary on Julius Caesar's "Commentarii de Bello Gallico" Baldini printed in early 1582.His first work as ducal music printer, and indeed his first print of music, was an anthology of madrigals, "Il lauro secco" (1582), written by the most renowned composers of Rome and Northern Italy, as well as introducing important new composers, and was inspired by Laura Peverara.He later printed the anthology "Il lauro verde" (1583), meant as a companion to "Il lauro secco", and presented to Peverara on the occasion of her marriage in late February 1583.