Mariagrazia Carlone graduated with honors in Musical Paleography and Philology (University of Pavia) and took her doctorate, with honors, in Musicology (University of Bologna).  A former lutenist, she has conducted research in musical iconography and the history of the lute and its repertory, publishing many articles and a book for the Italian Musicological Society iconography series.  She has lectured at seminars in Europe and the United States.  With Paul Beier, she is co-author of  the design of the musical iconography database software MusIco.  As part of her research doctorate in Musical Philology (University of Pavia), she is completing an edition, with transcriptions in modern notation, of the works of Lorenzino Tracetti and the Knight of The Lute (Vincenzo Pinti), with biographical studies of both authors.