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Hannah French leafs through a book of 100 exhibits exploring Renaissance music history, in conversation with its editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard.

Links to images of the exhibits they discuss:

Venus (Florence, c. 1464): www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1845-0825-467
Plato charming the wild animals by his music (Lahore, 1595): https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/1355
The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1627): bit.ly/3ITG3Xi
Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria (?Mechelen, c. 1515/20): https://lib.is/IE7906245/representation?fl_pid=FL7906763
Valance (England, Scotland or France, c. 1570/1600): https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O15351/valance-unknown
Le Jardin de Plaisance et Fleur de Rhétorique ((The Garden of Delight and the Flower of Rhetoric, Paris, c. 1501/2): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1511444h
The Musicians of the Holy Church, Exempt from Tax (Peru, c. 1615): www5.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/680/en/text/?open=idm464
Sacred and Profane Love (Venice, 1514): www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/opere/amor-sacro-e-amor-profano