Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Let's hope not ...

... Is the Renaissance scholar dead? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

There is a letter by the Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso (a.k.a., Roland de Lassus and Orlandus Lassus) to the king of Spain written in five languages - Lasso switches to whatever one is best capabale of expressing what he has to say. Obviously, he was pretty learned guy - but so, obviously, was his majesty.

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