> are going to be unhappy. I would wager most in the Lute > community would instantly understand that Francesco is most > surely Francesco Canova Da Milano Da Parigi. The point is that Francesco da Milano was never called just "Francesco" at his times as it was for, say, Michelangelo. Perhaps it might be an Anglophone habit to call him that way, but for sure that's not the case here in Italy, where he's universally known with his most common name in the Renaissance, that is Francesco da Milano. No one here would call him with just the first name and this is why the use to call him just Francesco disturbs me. Perhaps, as he was an Italian, the Italian habit should prevale this time... 8^)
Francesco (da Firenze)
