Giovanni Arascione

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Giovanni Arascione was born in Cairo (currently Cairo Montenotte, Savona), on October 18. 1546. This date, escaped from the Fétis, the Eitner and other musicologists, is certain. It is expressly indicated by the to. in one of the biographical sonnets appearing in the introduction of his work Nuove laudi ariose della Blessed Virgin chosen by various authors for four voices (in Rome, for Niccolò Mutij, 1600), from whose introductory pages we learn even the few information received on his person. A fellow countryman and contemporary of GG Ancina, it is very probable that the A. he completed his studies with him in the nearby city of Mondovì, forming that friendship of which we later have testimony. In Rome and Naples the A. was in relation with the best musicians of the time. The Oratory and the Philippine Congregation were then in their greatest splendor, but the A. he never belonged to it, always declaring himself a "secular priest". Concrete testimony of his musical activity is the collection of the New Laudi ariose (of which there are only two examples: one at the Vallicelliana Library in Rome, the other at the GB Martini Library in Bologna), which he compiled in collaboration with Ancina . He did not hesitate to call the work the "second part" of his Harmonic Temple, specifying that some of the poems contained therein had already been "composed and elaborated" by him two years earlier (1598), while he was in a rest period at the abbey of S. Angelo. Maybe even the to. he is

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