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Frank A. D'Accone, The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii + 862 pp. ISBN 0 226 13366 4.
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Frank A. D'Accone, The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxiii + 862 pp. ISBN 0 226 13366 4.
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