De Salinas, Francisco
(1513–1590)
FRANCISCO DE SALINASDE SALINAS, FRANCISCOFRANCISCO DE SALINAS [* 1513-† 1590] Francisco de Salinas was for scholarship in Spain what Girolamo MEI was for scholarship in Italy: a thorough and devoted student of the ancient authors on music. Having spent over twenty years of his adulthood in Rome and Naples, Salinas had ample opportunities for exposure to rare source materials, though his blindness must have complicated the research process. The result was De musica libri septem (1577), a work of…