 Alfonso kept the entertainments at his court highly secret, and one contemporary correspondent wrote that the entertainments were so "private" that a program could not be obtained, not even to be sent to Cardinal Luigi d'Este.Luzzasco Luzzaschi and Ippolito Fiorini wrote music for the "balletto", and Giovanni Battista Guarini wrote texts, however these do not survive.This entertainment probably continued until the end of the Este court in 1597, when Alfonso died and the city was taken over by the papacy.