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  • Dedications in three of his publications indicate his connections with Sermisy, Susato and Archbishop Granvelle, a great patron of the arts.

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  • The circumstances of this appointment are not clear, but it is evident that Johann Jakob Fugger and Granvelle were involved, and that Dr Seld, the imperial vice-chancellor at Brussels, played a part in the negotiations having first recommended Philippe de Monte for the post.

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  • Lassus may not have been altogether happy during his first years in Munich; he may indeed have cast about for another position, as some correspondence with Granvelle indicates.

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  • Many of his motet texts are liturgical but three are secular and relate to political figures: O decus praises Granvelle; Nil pace est melius hails a treaty restoring possessions to Duke Moritz of Saxony; and Nunc enim si centum exalts Charles V. Most of the sacred texts are responsories or antiphons, so that many motets have two parts with a refrain, in the form aBcB.

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  • They made excursions together to Granvelle, and sometimes went out shooting; they were so well known to be inseparable that they were invited to the country together.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • They made excursions together to Granvelle, and sometimes went out shooting; they were so well known to be inseparable that they were invited to the country together.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • He embarked on an extended academic journey to Italy, ending in Rome, where he became private secretary to Cardinal Granvelle, to whom he had dedicated his Variae lectiones, and where he made the acquaintance of leading humanists such as Marc-Antoine Muret, Fulvio Orsini, Paolo Manuzio and Guglielmo Sirleto.

    Justus Lipsius Papy, Jan 2004

  • The Spanish garrison, the penal edicts against heretics, the dread of the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition, all these factors led (during the rule (1559–67) of Margaret of Parma, the natural sister of Philip II, and her adviser, Cardinal Granvelle) to the formation of a league of nobles (Compromise of Breda), headed by Philip Marnix of St. Aldegonde.

    c. The Netherlands 2001

  • If an allusion is intended to the "State Papers of Cardinal _Granvelle_," we admit that these were not Strada's _only_ authorities; in fact, they were not his authorities at all; he never had the opportunity of consulting them.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • Granvelle, who had lately been raised to the post of Viceroy, came forth at the head of a long and brilliant procession to welcome his royal guest.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

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