Sounds from the Renaissance – The Museum of “Annibale Gianuario”

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• Sounds from the Renaissance – The Museum of “Annibale Gianuario”

For some years the Medici Villa “of a hundred chimneys” of Artimino houses, in addition to the Municipal Archaeological Museum, another unique exhibition: a collection of Renaissance instruments. And in August there’s also a festival dedicated to the Renaissance and it’s music.
It was opera singer Nella Anfuso’s idea, the museum (though it is open only by appointment, calling the hotel Paggeria Medici) is dedicated to Annibale Gianuario – a musician and a scholar who, from 1969 to 1991, directed the Centre for Studies of Musical Renaissance of Florence.
The Museum Archive of Annibale Gianuario was the result of a personal agreement between the President of the Foundation of The Centre for Studies of Musical Renaissance and the owners of the Medici Villa. In the rooms that hosted grand dukes, poets and musicians at the end of the sixteenth century are preserved the tools, books, microfilms, photos and audio-visual materials that make up the heritage accumulated by the Centre over many years.
The museum is addressed more than anyone else to scholars and experts on the subject by offering them the opportunity to develop the fields of research of the foundation: the influence of Florentine Neo-platonic aesthetics in music creation, the rediscovery and recovery of the great Italian school of singing that goes from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century.