...Passando [Dante] per porta San Piero, battendo ferro uno fabbro su la 'ncudine, cantava il Dante come si canta uno cantare a tramestava e versi suoi, smozzicando e appiccando, che parea a Dante ricever di quello grandissima...
Wilson, Blake. "If Monuments Could Sing: Image, Song, and Civic Devotion Inside Orsanmichele." In Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument, edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke, 139-168. National Gallery...
Wilson, Blake. "Isaac the Teacher: Pedagogy and Literacy in Florence, ca. 1488." In Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Russell E. Murray, Jr., Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus, 287-302....
For more information on the published version, visit Indiana University Press's Website., Wilson, Blake. "Italian Monophony." In A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music, edited by Ross W. Duffin, 163-172. Bloomington and...
Blake Wilson is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., The biographies of northern musicians active in late-fifteenth century Italy are notoriously sketchy. These individuals rarely stayed put in one place long (Heinrich...
In Florence around 1475, the manner preferred by the city’s literati for performing Tuscan poetry would have been solo, improvisatory song. By 1525, the polyphonic madrigal had become the pre-eminent vehicle. This is a striking...
For more information on the published version, visit Harvard University Press's Website., The sixty year period of Medici de facto rule during the fifteenth century can be framed by two musical monuments that, appropriately,...
In 1429 Ambrogio Traversari wrote from Florence to Leonardo Giustinian (ca. 1383-1464) praising his manner of singing “sweet arias,” and asking for samples of his poetry cum melodiis suis. It is not entirely clear to us what...