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Figure 4.3
Portrait of Nicola Vicentino, aged forty-four, as the frontispiece of his book Ancient Music Adapted to Modern
Practice (1555). In the outer border, his motto reads: “ You have revealed to me the uncertain and hidden things
of Thy science. ” In the inner border, he is identified as “ inventor of the archicembalo and also of the practical
division of the chromatic and enharmonic genera. ”