General history of the science and practice of music. [With] vol. of portraits Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...Mia canzon, prego, non vi sia in noia Che se gradir volete il suono, e '1 motto; Cui piaccia, o n6, apprezza poco Arnaldo. And this other, --Gcs per maltrag qem sofri De ben amar non destoli Si tot me son endesert Per lei faz lo son el rima. Thus translated by Crescimbeni, --Gia per mal tratto ch' io soffersi Di ben amar non mi distolsi Si tosto, ch' io mi sono in solitudine, Per lei faccio lo suono, e la rima. One proof of Arnaldo Daniello's reputation as a poet is, that Petrarch taking occasion to mention Arnaldo di Maraviglia, another of the Provencals, styles him 'II men famoso Arnaldo, ' meaning thereby to give the former a higher rank in the class of poets. Many others, as namely, Guglielmo Adimaro, Folchetto da Marsiglia, Raimondo di Miravalle, Anselmo Faidit, Arnaldo di Maraviglia, Ugo Brunette, Pietro Raimondo il Prode, Ponzio di Bruello, Rambaldo d' Oranges, Salvarico di Malleone, an English gentleman, Bonifazio Calvi, Percivalle Doria, Giraldo di Bornello, Alberto di Sisterone, Bernardo Rascasso, Pietro de Bonifazi, and others, to the amount of some hundreds in number, occur in the catalogue of Provencal poets, an epithet which was given to them, not because they were of that country, for they were of many countries, but because they cultivated that species of poetry which had its rise in Provence: nor were they less distinguished by their different ranks and conditions in life, than by the respective places of their nativity. Some were men of quality, such as counts and barons, others knights, some lawyers, some soldiers, others merchants, nay some were mechanics, and even pilgrims. All these were favoured with the protection, and, I It U remarkable that Alexander the Great by bathing in this rivef contracted that illness of which his physician Phi