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Also known as Frate Bartholino, Frater Bartholomeus, scappucia Frate Baroino, Magister Frater Bartolinus de Padua, Bartolino da Padova, Bartolino da Padu, Bartolo da Firenze.Bartholus de Florentia is an obscure composer but for his one Credo movement, once attributed to Lorenzo da Firenza.

He may have been the first Italian to compose a polyphonic Mass movement, but the documentation is so sparse, it’s hard to tell.

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He’s portrayed in the Squarcialupi Codex with a tonsured head and wearing a Carmelite habit.It’s possible that he was prior at the Carmelite abbey in Padua in 1380. In 1405, he was forced into exile to Florence. It seems that he’d written some unfavorable allusions regarding the political and moral behavior of the Visconti family that controlled Padua, so off he went.Most of the music collections of the time include only or mostly secular songs—there’s a surpris