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In their day, the Latin poetic paraphrases of the psalms by Jan Campanus Vodňanský, a poet and professor at the University of Prague, were among his best known and most published works. In Prague in 1611, the printer Jonata Bohutský issued the first volume of Vodňanský’s odes. A second volume followed two years later containing songs for feast days and Sundays throughout the year, then in 1616 the...
As one of the seven liberal arts, musica was an essential, organic element of the erudition of a Humanist scholar. An educated person living in that era was likely to apply his scholarly skills either in the living practice of singing, or in equal measure, in his own literary output, whether in prose or versified. Georgius Handschius, a Humanist scholar hailing from Česká Lípa, northern Bohemia, was...
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