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Frank A. D'Accone, The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii + 862 pp. ISBN 0 226 13366 4.

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Frank A. D'Accone, The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii + 862 pp. ISBN 0 226 13366 4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Fiona Kisby*
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London

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18 The author is at pains to point out, though, that individual administrators such as Alberto Aringhieri in the late fifteenth century were in a position to formulate policies intended to counter this instability of the cathedral personnel (pp. 224ff.).Google Scholar

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20 See also Frank D'Accone, ‘The Sienese Rhymed Office for the Feast of Sant’ Ansano’, L'Ars nova italiana del trecento, 6 (1992), 2140.Google Scholar

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