by Paul Cassarly | Jan 14, 2021 | History
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by Paul Cassarly | Jan 14, 2021 | History
His Medal from the Holy Roman Emperor Opening Fantini’s method to page three, the reader is confronted by a woodcut of the trumpeter, with a surrounding caption stating that he came from Spoleto and that the portrait was done when he was 36 years old. A medal,...
by Paul Cassarly | Jan 13, 2021 | History
Birth, Training, and Positions According to the most recent research performed by Igino Conforzi, Girolamo Fantini was born in Spoleto in 1600, immediately precending February, 11, the date of his baptism. Various documents between 1544 and 1606 show the presence in...
by Paul Cassarly | Oct 20, 2020 | History
Between the period of 1100 to 1400 A.D. trumpet players began to truly enjoy a long period of enjoyed social status and importance among human society. Still highly engaged in conflicts around the world, governments used trumpeters to sound military orders to troops...