Cesare del Giudice [de Judice] (28/01/1607 - 13/09/1680), an Italian composer and high placed government official in Palermo. Of noble birth, he was descended through his father from the Usodimare family of Genoa and through his mother from the Opezinga family of Palermo. He graduated in jurisprudence on 28 January 1632. Mongitore, who included long, detailed articles on him and on almost every member of his family, stated that ‘he excelled in music … and especially in the composition of pathetic songs, as can be seen in a large manuscript volume filled with his compositions which is preserved by his children’. This is lost, like all his other known music: a youthful Missa pro mortuis, which appears to have been chosen in 1666 for the first anniversary of the death of Philip IV of Spain and Sicily and was still performed in the churches of Palermo at the beginning of the 18th century, and two publications, Madrigali concertati a 2, 3 e 4 voci, da cantarsi col cembalo, e altre canzonette alla napolitana e alla romana per la chitarra spagnola (Messina, 1628) and Mottetti e madrigali (Palermo, 1635).