Honoring God and the City
Subtitle: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 25, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780195134896
First sentence: Like most visitors to the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the English traveler Fynes Moryson, who was there in 1594, was struck by the splendor, piety, and generosity of the great confraternities, or scuole grandi.