Giovanni Battista Chiodini

Giovanni Battista Chiodini or Chiodino (died 1652) was an Italian Franciscan friar, music theorist, and writer.

A Conventual Franciscan and Inquisitor from Monte Milone (now Pollenza), he wrote about music theory (Arte pratica latina e volgare di far contrapunto, 1610), astronomy and mathematics (Praxis sphaerica clarissima, 1615), theology, philosophy and literature, and composed poems in Italian and Latin (La nobiltà burghesia romana, 1620).

His Arte pratica of 1610 was translated into German by Johann Andreas Herbst, and published as Arte prattica et poëtica, das ist: ein kurzer Unterricht, wie man einen Contrapunct machen und komponieren sol lernen in 1653.

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