RM2B0370W–Guido of Arezzo (also Guido Aretinus, Guido Aretino, Guido da Arezzo, Guido Monaco, or Guido d'Arezzo, or Guy of Arezzo also Guy d'Arezzo) (991/992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist of the Medieval era. He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation (staff notation) that replaced neumatic notation; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages (after the writings of Boethius).
RM2B039BC–Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named 'the Swan of Catania'.
RM2B036PN–'Book of the Marvels of the World' (French: Livre des Merveilles du Monde) or 'Description of the World' (Devisement du Monde), in Italian Il Milione ('The Million') or Oriente Poliano and in English commonly called 'The Travels of Marco Polo', is a 13th-century travelogue. It was recorded by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1276 and 1291, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan.
RM2B01T3N–USA/Egypt: Poster for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Aida', performed by the Hippodrome Opera Company of Cleveland, Ohio, 1908. Aida, sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.
RM2B016NJ–Italy/China: Teodorico Pedrini (30 June 1671 - 10 December 1746), Vincentian priest, missionary, musician and composer. Portrait, 1897. Paolo Filippo Teodorico Pedrini, known in China as De Lige, was born in Fermo, Italy. He became a missionary, travelling across the world, from Peru to the Mariana Islands to the Philippines before finally arriving in China. He became one of the first non-Jesuit missionaries to be allowed into the Imperial Court, and taught music to some of Emperor Kangxi’s sons. He established the first non-Jesuit church in Beijing, the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
RM2B01GFK–Italy: 'The School of Athens'. Fresco by Raphael (1483-1520), 1509. The Moorish philosopher Averroes or Ahmad Ibn Rushd (1126 - 10 December 1198) from Cordoba, al-Andalus, stands in the left foreground clad in green, peering over the shoulder of Pythagoras. Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd, better known as Ibn Rushd and in European literature as Averroes, was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy and more.
RM2B01GA0–Italy/Spain/Al-Andalus: Averroës (Ibn Rushd). Detail from 'Triunfo de Santo Tomás de Aquino' by Andrea Bonaiuto da Firenze (fl. 1343-1377), Santa Maria Novella, c. 1368. Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd, better known as Ibn Rushd, and in European literature as Averroes (1126 - 10 December 1198), was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics.
RM2B01DMW–Iraq/Italy: Music and dance. Illustration from Ibn Butlan's Taqwim al-sihha or 'Maintenance of Health', published in Italy as the Tacuinum Sanitatis, 14th century. The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al‑sihha, an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butlân was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He set forth six elements necessary to maintain daily health.
RM2B01DMF–Iraq/Italy: Music as an aid in insomnia. Illustration from Ibn Butlan's Taqwim al-sihha or 'Maintenance of Health', published in Italy as the Tacuinum Sanitatis, 14th century. The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al‑sihha, an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butlân was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He set forth six elements necessary to maintain daily health.
RM2B01DNB–Iraq/Italy: Music - a choir. Illustration from Ibn Butlan's Taqwim al-sihha or 'Maintenance of Health', published in Italy as the Tacuinum Sanitatis, 14th century. The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al‑sihha, an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butlân was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He set forth six elements necessary to maintain daily health.
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