An article by Gregorio Moppi in la Repubblica (31 August 2026) tells a remarkable story: in the 1500s, a medieval music manuscript was cut into strips and reused to reinforce the binding of a monastery’s account book near Rimini. Nearly two hundred fragments have now been cleaned and digitally reassembled like a puzzle — restoring eighty-five secular pieces from the 14th and early 15th centuries, nineteen of them previously unknown. Among them, a lost ballata by Francesco Landini, the blind Florentine organist of the Italian Ars Nova.

Reconstructed by some of the Laudare team members, some pieces will be performed on 4 September at the Teatro Galli in Rimini by Ensemble Micrologus.