NANINI,Sometimes incorrectly spelled Nanino. Giovanni Bernardino, was born, about the middle of the 16th century, at Vallerano, where he studied Counterpoint under his elder brother, Giovanni Maria. Removing, at a later period, to Rome, he held the appointment of Maestro di Cappella, first at the Church of S. Luigi de' Francesi, and afterwards at that of S. Lorenzo in Damaso. Beyond this, little is known of his personal history; though it is certain that he took a prominent part in...
