query: date_of_birth jeronimo bassano
supports: Venice (; ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated across a group of 117 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges. These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site. Giovanni Bassano (c. 1561  3 September 1617) was an Italian Venetian School composer and cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a key figure in the development of the instrumental ensemble at St. Mark's basilica, and left a detailed book on instrumental ornamentation, which is a rich resource for research in contemporary performance practice. It was Bassano who was most responsible for the performance of the music of Giovanni Gabrieli, who would emerge as one of the most renowned members of the Venetian School. Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557  12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the Venetian School, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. The cornett, cornetto, or zink is an early wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. It was used in what are now called alta capellas or wind ensembles. It is not to be confused with the trumpet-like cornet. Jeronimo Bassano was an Italian musician who is noteworthy for having been head of a family of musicians -- Anthony Bassano , Jacomo , Alvise , Jasper , John and Baptista -- who moved from Venice to England and the household of Henry VIII to serve the court . Jeronimo himself never moved , however , but was listed in Venice as a `` Maestro of the trumpets and shawms . '' Through Jeronimo 's son Jacomo , who alone among his brothers did not join the recorder consort to Henry VIII , but kept his primary residence in Venice , Jeronimo is very likely a great - grandfather to the composer Giovanni Bassano . Jeronimo was the son of Baptista `` Piva '' of Bassano del Grappa , a town 35 miles from Venice . Baptista was a musician who played the piva , a small bagpipe . He was the son of Andrea de Crespano who was from the village of Crespano , about nine miles east of Bassano . Andrea , Baptista and Jeronimo were all described as musicians and musical instrument makers . At the beginning of the 16th century , Jeronimo moved from Bassano to Venice where he was described as `` Maestro Hieronimo '' , piffero player to the Doge of Venice between 1506 and 1512 . The historian A.L. Rowse in his correspondence to The Times in 1973 claimed that the Bassanos were Jewish and Dr. David Lasocki of Indiana University ( or rather his co-author Roger Prior ) claimed in his 1995 book that the family were converted Jews . However , Giulio M. Ongaro in his `` New Documents on the Bassano Family '' in Early Music and Alessio Ruffatti ( who did research in the archives of Bassano del Grappa assisted by Professor Pier Cesare Ioly Zorattini ) both argue that the Bassanos who moved to England were not of Jewish origin . Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate; due to its shape, it is often referred to in Italy as "lo Stivale" (the Boot). With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state.
candidates: 117 12 august 1612 1500 1554 1557 1561 1617 3 september 1617 61
answer: 1500