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Chapters: Francisco Álvares, Tristão Da Cunha, Il Sodoma, Afonso I of Kongo, Henry Brinklow, Sebastian Franck, Ludwig Senfl, Girolamo Savoldo, Jorge de Alvarado, Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley, Florentius Volusenus, Mary Brandon, Baroness Monteagle, Francesco de Layolle, Hubert Naich, Francesco Xanto Avelli, Margaret Lee, Valerius Anshelm, Marinus Van Reymerswaele, Agnolo Firenzuola, Bagrat I of Mukhrani, Jean Richafort, Levi Ibn Chaviv, Marco D'oggiono, Defendente Ferrari, Mariangelo Accorso, Janet Kennedy, Pedro Reinel, Dorota Tarnowska, San Danielo Da Pellegrino, Marco Cardisco, Jan Van Amstel, Leonardo Da Pistoia, Lorenz Lemlin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 109. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Il Sodoma (1477 February 14, 1549?) was the name given to the Italian Mannerist painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with two periods in Rome. Giovanni Bazzi was of the family de Bazis, and born at Vercelli in Piedmont in 1477. His first master was the "archaic" Martino Spanzotti he also appears to have been a student of the painter Giovenone. After acquiring the strong coloring and other distinctive stylistic features of the Lombard school and though he is not known to have travelled to Milan somehow absorbing the superficial mannerisms of Leonardo (Freedberg 1993:117), he traveled to Siena before 1503, perhaps at the behest of agents of the Spannocchi family, and began with fresco cycles for Olivetan monks and a series of small Ovidian ceiling panels and a frieze depicting the career of Julius Caesar for Sigismondo Chigi at Palazzo Chigi. Along with Pinturicchio, Sodoma was one of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=457358 ... Read more

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Senfl was probably born in Basel around 1486, and lived in Zürich from 1488 until 1496, when he joined the choir of the Hofkapelle of Emperor Maximilian I in Augsburg. Apart from one brief visit in 1504 he appears never again to have lived in Switzerland.In 1497 he followed the Hofkapelle to Vienna, and between 1500 and 1504 he probably studied in Vienna for three years, the standard practice for choirboys whose voices had broken, as part of the normal training for the priesthood. During this period he studied with Heinrich Isaac, serving as his copyist by 1509; he is known to have copied much of the older composer's Choralis Constantinus, an enormous work which he was later to complete after Isaac's death.After a trip to Italy sometime between 1508 and 1510, Senfl returned to the Hofkapelle; the Emperor appointed him to fill Isaac's position as court composer when Isaac died in 1517. In 1518 Senfl lost a toe in a hunting accident; evidently the injury disabled him for up to a year. When the Emperor died in 1519, Senfl was out of a job, and his circumstances altered for the worse: Charles V dismissed most of Maximilian's musicians, and even refused to pay Senfl the annual stipend which had been promised to him in the event of the emperor's death. During the next few years he traveled widely, mainly job-seeking, but he was also active as a composer. He is known to have attended the Diet of Worms in 1521, and, while he never officially became a Protestant, his sympathies evidently were with Luther, and he was later examined by the Inquisition and voluntarily gave up his priesthood. Senfl carried on an extensive correspondence both with Lutheran Duke Albrecht of Prussia and with Martin Luther himself, beginning in 1530.Eventually Senfl acquired a post in Munich, a place which had high musical standards, a strong need for new music, and which was relatively tolerant of those with Protestant sympathies; he was to remain there for the rest of his life. ... Read more