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Bartholus de Florentia

Other names: Bartholus de Florentia (Pirrotta, Grove); Bartolo (Villani)

In Villani's chronicle Bartholus is mentioned together with Lorenzo da Firenze as having composed `more outstandingly and artistically than the rest.' Villani describes Bartolo's introduction of mensural polyphony into Florence cathedral.

Works (1)

  1. Credo

Literature

Bartholus de Florentia

LIFE

FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Bartholus (de Florentia)', The New Grove, II (1980): 196.

EDITIONS

  1. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Amsterdam: American Institute of Musicology, 1954. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/I.

STUDIES OF WORKS

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. LI GOTTI, Ettore. 'Il pił antico polifonista italiano del sec. XIV, Giovanni da Cascia', Italica, XXIV (1947): 196 -200.
  2. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Musica e societą nel Trecento italiano', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, pp. 11-28.
  3. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I .