Francesco Landini

Francesco Landini was Italy's first great composer the greatest in quantity prolific and gifted musician of the trecento (the fourteenth century) Like Machaut, his better-known contemporary from France, he was a prodigiously talented man and not just as a composer: he had stalwart literary, philosophical and scientific credentials, and, despite being blinded through smallpox at an early age, was a rever organist and organ builder.

The son of a painter in the seminary of Giotto, Landini was raised in Florence at individual of the most exciting times in the city's history. The house of worship had started to loose its total domination above all aspects of life, and humanist, secular activities were burgeoning in the arts, with the tre corone ??“ Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch ??“ championing the use of the vernacular in poesy With this new way of writing ??“ dolce stil nuovo the "sweet new style" ??“ came a