Note 1 — INTRODUCTION.
John Ernest Galliard translation
When Arts and Sciences were retrieving from the Barbarism in which they were buried, Musick chiefly took its Rise in Flanders, and the Composers of Musick of that Nation were dispersed all over Europe, to the Improvement of others. In Italy there arose from that School, among several others, P. Alis. Palestrina, a Genius so extraordinary, that he is looked upon as the Raphael among the Musicians. He lived in Pope Leo the Tenth's Time; and no Musick, that we know of, is performed at the Pope's Chapel, to this Day, but of his Composition, except the famous Miserere of Allegri, who liv'd a little time after Palestrina.