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A great success for the event celebrating the rediscovery of the San Gaudenzo Codex
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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Music from the Trecento, lost inside a bookbinding
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 —…