The Vihuela as Symbol in Neoplatonic Representations of the Cosmos in the Renaissance (Part I): The Vihuela Featured on the Frontispiece of Gafori’s Practica Musicae (1496)

César Rodríguez (2005)
Translated from the Spanish by Lars Rosager (2019)
Sociedad de la Vihuela, el Laúd y la Guitarra

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, images and descriptions of the universe exerted a powerful influence on mankind’s imagination.

Rodríguez, César (trans. Lars Rosager) – The Vihuela as Symbol in Neoplatonic Representations of the Cosmos in the Renaissance (part 1)