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Díaz de Vilar y Mendoza, Primer marqués de Cenete, Rodrigo

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Rodrigo Díaz de Vilar y Mendoza, Primer marqués de Cenete 1473 Valencia 1523 M P1262

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vihuela Patron

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First Marqués de Cenete, don Rodrigo Díaz de Vilar y Mendoza, son of Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza (Knighton 2001: 105) As governor of Valencia from 1521 the first Marquis spent the last years of his life residing in the archiepiscopal palace where his possessions included almost 60 books, [Knighton2016-2, 108] vihuelas, lute harps and keyboards

Gómez-Ferrer 2010: 37, 44-45, n. 31 gives the list of instruments in his possession

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1521 Cenete inventory


Bibliography
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gomezferrer2010 Gómez-Ferrer, Mercedes. “El Marqués de Zenete y sus posesiones valencianas. Mentalidad arquitectónica y artística de un noble del Renacimiento”. Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte 22 (2010), 27–46.
knighton2016-2 Knighton Tess “Instruments, Instrumental Music and Instrumentalists: Traditions and Transitions”. Companion to music in the age of the Catholic monarchs, ed. Tess Knighton. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2016. 97-144. 106ff
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