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| | HOASM: The Florentine Group |
 | | However, Giovanni da Cascia, who today is considered the first musician of that school, was born in 1270, only a few years after Dante's birth. |
 | | The third generation: Zacherie, a papal singer from 1420 to 1432, Matteo da Perugia, Giovanni da Genoa, Giovanni da Ciconia, Antonello da Caserta, Filippo da Caserta, Corrado da Pistoia, Bartolomeo da Bologna. |
 | | Giovanni da Cascia was, in the first half of the century, organist at Santa Maria del Fiore and closed his career at the court of Mastino II della Scala at Verona. |
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