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HOASM: Anthony Bassano (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Bassano, born in Bassano del Grappo, Italy,was one of six sons of Jeronimo Bassano--Anthony, Jacomo, Alvise, Jasper, John and Baptista--who moved from Venice to England to the household of Henry VIII to serve the court, probably in 1540. |
 | | Of his ten children, the five sons--Mark Anthony, Arthur, Edward, Andrea and Jeronimo--all served as musicians to the court of Henry VIII, and a daughter--Lucreece--married Nicholas Lanier, the Elder, grandfather of the artist-musician Nicholas Lanier. |
 | | The negotiations were successful, and at the end of 1539, Alvise, John, Baptista, and Jasper, along with their respective families, made a definitive departure from Venice for England, rejoining Anthony there. |
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