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Giuseppe Cenci, known as Giuseppino del Biado (d. 21 June 1616, Rome), was an Italian tenor and composer. Little is recorded of his early life or birth year. He was named by the contemporary writer Vincenzo Giustiniani (1628) alongside Giulio Caccini as one of the musicians who advanced the new recitative style around the turn of the 17th century.
He is remembered almost entirely for a single tune, “Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo,” printed in his madrigal collection of 1600 — later famous in instrumental form as “La Mantovana” and the basis for numerous later variations, including instrumental divisions by other composers of the period.
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