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Tuesday 20 – Wednesday 21 October 2026, from 9:00 amBiblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, Sala 1 (Viale Castro Pretorio 105, Rome) Two days devoted to the Italian lauda, bringing together scholars to present newly identified sources and the latest research tools for studying this rich devotional song tradition. Organised by Ibimus ETS in collaboration…
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On 15th October 2026, the LAUDARE project database will presented be at CIM 2026 – the XXV Colloquium on Music Informatics in L’Aquila, hosted by the Conservatorio “A. Casella” with the University of L’Aquila (DISIM) and AIMI, as part of elettroAQustica 11. In Demo Session 2 (Palazzo Spaventa, Sala Caputo, 9:30–17:30), Jorge Junior Morgado…

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On 28–29 September 2026, two-days meetings took place in Venice at the “Gianni Milner” Library, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, organised by the ERC AdG project LAUDARE (University of Trento), Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi and Accademia “San Marco” Pordenone. The fifteenth century saw a remarkable flowering of the lauda across the Veneto, cultivated…

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The LAUDARE team joins SHARPER – European Researchers’ Night in L’Aquila to present its new web platform. As main topic of the LAUDARE Project, the lauda is the vernacular devotional song that marked the birth of singing in Italian, spreading from the thirteenth century onwards. What survives of it is scattered across libraries and…

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On 4 September, at the Sala Ressi of the Teatro Galli, the Ensemble Micrologus performed Soave odor per l’universo spande — music from the San Gaudenzo III songbook, held at the State Archives of Rimini and long thought lost. In the 1500s the manuscript had been cut into strips and reused to reinforce the…

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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 —…

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The LAUDARE team is taking part in the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen) 2026, held from 6 to 10 July at the University of Warsaw (Old University Library Building, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26). The project opened its presence in Warsaw on Monday 6 July with the session “San Gaudenzo: A New Source of…

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The ERC AdG LAUDARE project, in collaboration with IBIMUS, the University of Trento, and the National Central Library of Rome, is pleased to announce an international conference to be held in Rome on October 20–21, 2026. The conference aims to explore the evolution of the Italian lauda through an interdisciplinary lens. Original contributions on…

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The University of Trento hosted a three-day conference from June 4–6, 2026, focused on the connection between medieval laude and living oral traditions within Italian popular devotion. As part of the ERC Laudare project directed by Francesco Zimei, the event explored how sacred movement and the body function in Italian rituals, while examining vernacular…

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During the Radio 1 Programme ‘Alla Sorgente del Sapere’ the episode – launched on the 24th of March 2026 – explores the evocative synergy between music and poetry, with a dedicated focus on the Laudare Project. The discussion features insights from Francesco Zimei and Giacomo Pirani, who delve into the project which investigates the…