Giovanni Antonio Terzi, of whom little is known, composed music collected in two important lute books published in Venice in 1593 and 1599.  A large proportion of those books is given to intabulations of vocal music.  However, the fantasias presented in this edition are some of the most accomplished of the generation after Francesco da Milano.  They represent a last flowering of the lute fantasia in the imitative style often found with motets.  The fantasias, canzona-fantasia, toccatas and prelude of this volume, presented in conventional grand staff notation and Italian tablature, provide both performers and scholars access to examples of the late-sixteenth-century solo fantasia.