Francisco Gorzanis

Francisco Gorzanis was a mid-sixteenth-century lutenist-composer of southern Italian origin, active primarily in Venice during the great flowering of its print industry. Almost nothing is known about his early life, though his surname suggests roots in the Dalmatian or Friulian regions, and he appears to have been blind—a detail mentioned in several contemporary notices and later bibliographies. Gorzanis emerges in the historical record through