Dinko Fabris, Università della Basilicata and Conservatorio di Napoli; president, International Musicological Society, leads this lecture in honor of Earl V. Moore Professor Emeritus of Musicology Glenn E. Watkins (author of The Gesualdo Hex) Fabris, a historian of Neapolitan music and general editor of the new Gesualdo Opera Omnia, will scrutinize the most recent biographical and musical findings concerning Gesualdo, prince of Venosa, and his “Hex,” while underlining the essential nature of Watkins’ contribution to the critical discovery, understanding, and relocation of Gesualdo’s music within global musical culture at the start of the third millennium.