> > As you haven't seen it, other than in two manuscripts copied in the 18th > century you can't evaluate it. All that you can say is that you know > nothing about it. So much of what you say simply ignores that fact that we > have a very incomplete picture of what was really happening.
Oh no, I only don't speculate on the existence of hidden masterpieces. We have to deal with what is left. > > Hope to see it once! > > Again the point is that you haven't seen it, and therefore only have an > incomplete picture. But don't we all hope that something important shows up? Untill then our picture is incomplete. > > How do we decide which "school" to assign them to? Place of origin? What > if they don't tell us their place of origin? And what of Corbetta? He > describes himself as Pavese - so if he belongs to the Bologna "school", so > does Costanza. I did not speak of 'schools'. > Elaborate theories such as that which Gary has put forward are simply > fantasy. People who believe in them don't really live in the real world. Tell him, not me... L. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
