At the conclusion of the Leonardo Anniversary 1519–2019, the Duomo of Milan organised an exhibition about the cathedral in the time of Da Vinci’s stays in Milan. Daniele Filippi curated the section on Franchinus Gaffurius. The…

The Polifonia Sforzesca Research Team is glad to announce the publication of the Gaffurius Codices Research Portal.

Our new book Motet Cycles Between Devotion and Liturgy has been published by Schwabe Verlag.
This book explores the corpus of motet cycles composed and disseminated in manuscript and printed sources of polyphony ca. 1470–ca. 1510, including works by Loyset Compère, Gaspar van Weerbeke, and Franchinus Gaffurius.

Our new book Codici per cantare: I Libroni del Duomo nella Milano sforzesca has been published by Libreria Musicale Italiana.
The Libroni (literally “big books”) prepared for the Duomo under chapel master Franchinus Gaffurius are among the most valuable cultural treasures from Renaissance Milan.

Agnese Pavanello delivered a keynote address at the conference The Anatomy of Polyphonic Music around 1500 (Cascais, Portugal, 27-30 June 2018).

Thanks to funding from the SNF, and to a joint effort by the Veneranda Fabbrica, our research team, and the experts in the digital photography of musical manuscripts from DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music based in Oxford), the Libroni digitization campaign took place between January and February 2018.