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Early-18th-century manuscript copy of a genealogical work by Giovanni Pietro de Crescenzi Romani including genealogical and biographical accounts of 155 prominent families from Milan and Lombardy. Includes marginalia and references to further documentation throughout.
In this volume the author looks at the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing, in the early 17th century.
In the renaissance also architecture from c. 800–1200 was regarded as a useful source of inspiration for contemporary building, sometimes by misinterpreting these medieval architecture as roman structures, sometimes because that era was also regarded as a glorious ‘ancient’ past.