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 | | For information about specific Italian composers writing in late Medieval era, see Francesco Landini, Gherardello da Firenze, Andrea da Firenze, Lorenzo da Firenze, Paolo da Firenze, Giovanni da Firenze (aka Giovanni da Cascia), Bartolino da Padova, Jacopo da Bologna, Donato da Cascia, Lorenzo Masini, Niccolò da Perugia, and Maestro Piero. |
 | | The geisslerlieder were the songs of wandering bands of flagellants, who sought to appease the wrath of an angry God by penitential music accompanied by mortification of their bodies. |
 | | The term "mannerism" was applied by later scholars, as it often is, in response to an impression of sophistication being practiced for its own sake, a malady which some authors have felt infected the Ars subtillior. |
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