Great Italian and French Composers

"[...]which had already reached their zenith in Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, and Michel Angelo. Henceforth Italian music was to be a vigorous, fruitful stock. Giovanni Perluigui Aloisio da Palestrina was born at Palestrina, the ancient Præneste, in 1524.* * Our composer, as was common with artists and scholars in those days, took the name of his natal town, and by this he[...]".