Diego, unfortunately I cannot read Italian. Are you in agreement with Meucci? Monica, the only things I know about Meucci's article are from you. As I understand it, Meucci isn't saying that the chitarrone is a large lute. The lute has its own, separate, traditions. The chitarrone (he is saying, I think) is a large (massive!) gittern (or gittern/mandore). Stuart
On 17 October 2012 18:34, Diego Cantalupi <[1]tio...@gmail.com> wrote: If you can read Italian, you can find my dissertation about Chitarrone here: [2]http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf The first chapter is about ethimology. Diego > To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:tio...@gmail.com 2. http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html