The cantastorie and his music in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy

Abstract

And this also has recently been imported from Cisalpine Gaul!This one lacked the refinement of the customs of our country.6 The fashion of the cantari was therefore considered, up to that point at least, as having originated far from the south of Italy, in Cisalpine Gaul, i.e. the regions we now know as Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna.A narrative repertoire inspired by the chansons de gestes and the Matter of Britain was spread throughout Italy by so-called canterini.An earlier document from 2 For other terms see James Haar, "'Improvvisatori' and their Relationship to Sixteenth-Century Music", id., Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600 (Berkeley, 1986), pp.76-99, and Blake Wilson, "The 'Cantastorie/Canterino/Cantimbanco' as Musician", Italian Studies 71 (2016), pp.154-170.3 Ezio Levi, I cantari leggendari del popolo italiano nei secoli XIV e XV.Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, Supplemento 16 (Turin, 1914).

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