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Guillaume de Machaut

Generally acclaimed the best author of the fourteenth century is Guillaume de Machaut, born in Champagne about 1300. In the first 1320s he joined the support of John, Duke of Luxembourg and Ruler of Bohemia, who guaranteed for Machaut numerous ecclesiastical posts, recorded in some papal bulls. Probably one of …

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Guillaume Dufay

Guillaume Dufay commenced a meteoric music career as a straightforward choirboy at Cambrai Cathedral in 1409. Before his loss of life, Dufay would business lead the papal chapel, consort with popes and dukes, collaborate with Donatello and Brunelleschi, and become reckoned the initial author of the Renaissance. His birthdate is …

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