Fantasia Francesco da Milano, Guitar arrangement

The arrangement is by Jose de Azpiazu in his Gitarrenschule Francesco Canova da MilanoFrancesco Canova da Milano (18 August 1497 2 January 1543) was a virtuoso Italian lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. Born in Monza, near Milan (hence the da Milano ), he was heralded throughout Italy and Europe and was the foremost lute composer of his time. He left several books of music for the lute. It has been noted 1 that: The basic facility with which he articulated the High Renaissance style for a single instrument continues to make his music uniquely In 1982 I made a guitar, spruce from Swizerland and rosewood from India. I followed the instructions in an English book, Make your own Spanish Guitar The measures was in inches (25, 4 mm) and I found myself an old ruler divided in inches. After a year or two I found reasons to check the measures and they were wrong. I had another look at the ruler and discovered it was divided in Norwegian inches (26, 2mm) I didn t know t