Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philos

The first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian

With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of mus

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