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Anthony Bassano was a 16th-century Italian musician. Bassano, born in Bassano del Grappa, 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 Bassano) married Nicholas Lanier the Elder, grandfather of the artist-musician Nicholas Lanier. The historian A.L. Rowse in his correspondence to ''The Times'' in 1973 claimed that the Bassanos were Jewish〔"''Revealed At Last, Shakespeare's Dark Lady.''", ''The Times'' January 29, 1973: 12.〕 and Dr. David Lasocki of Indiana University claimed in his 1995 book that the family were converted Jews.〔David Lasocki; Roger Prior: ''The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1665'', Aldershot, Hampshire: Scolar Press (1995)〕 However, Giulio M. Ongaro in his "New Documents on the Bassano Family" in ''Early Music'' and Alessio Ruffatti (who did research in the archives of Bassano del Grappa assisted by Professor Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini both argued that the Bassanos who moved to England were not of Jewish origin .〔Ruffatti, Alessio. "Italian Musicians at the Tudor Court--Were They Really Jews?" ''Jewish Historical Studies'' 35 (1996-1998): 1-14., Jewish Historical Society of England〕 Besides being wind players in the King's band, the Bassanos were also instrument makers.〔Roger Prior, ("Jewish Musicians at the Tudor Court" ), ''Musical Quarterly'', Vol 69 number 2 (Spring 1983), pp. 253-265.〕 Anthony was recorded as a foreigner, formerly Queen Elizabeth's musician, resident in the London parish of St Olave and All Hallows Staining, in 1607. He was married with five children, all born in England.〔Strype, John, ''Annals of the Reformation'', vol. 4 (1824), 571.〕 ==See also== *Lanier family tree 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Bassano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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