The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 646
ening to theballads and roundelays of which she was so fond. But the King, who pre-ferred good stories to these love ballads, was very particular that hischapel music, on which large sums were spent, should not be inferior to thatof any other court in Europe. Charles VIII. brought back from his… … S42 MUSIC. Francois L was too fond of poetry not to like music ; and his predecessor,Louis XII., had left him a choir which had no equal in the world, and whichwas under the direction of Guillaume Guinand, formerly chapel-master toLudovic Sforza, the last Duke of Milan. This was the choir…
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