Ballo is the normal Italian word for dance, as in Bendusi’s Opera Nova de Balli (1553), which contains dances in both duple and triple time. However, around 1600 the term was used for more formal, choreographed dances that might be part of a dramatic work or of a court ceremony; examples of such dances might be Lorenzo Allegri’s Balli of 1618 (Dances from Il Primo Libro delle Musiche ↣), composed for the Florentine court.