Archive image from page 117 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoruni08rees Year: 1819 C I A C I A the word chaconne or c'tacconna is derived; it lias been imagined in Italy by fome that a clco, or blind (idler, had invented the air, and that it had its name from that circumftnnce. And we are able to give fome weight to this conjecture, from recolle&ing, that in the 'Hilt, of Muf. vol. ii.' there is an account ot a celebrated blind organiti, who fiourilhcd at Florence fo early as the middle of th
Archive image from page 117 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoruni08rees Year: 1819 C I A C I A the word chaconne or c'tacconna is derived; it lias been imagined in Italy by fome that a clco, or blind (idler, had invented the air, and that it had its name from that circumftnnce. And we are able to give fome weight to this conjecture, from recolle&ing, that in the 'Hilt, of Muf. vol. ii.' there is an account ot a celebrated blind organiti, who fiourilhcd at Florence fo early as the middle of the 14th century, and who was probably author of the air upon a ground, called the aeccona, or eiaceonna. Philip Villani, the younger of the Florentine hiftbrians of that name, in his ' Vite d'Uomini illuftri Florentine' has interred the life of Franccfco Cieco, the blind organilt, who died in 1390. ' Many,' fays this writer, ' are the Florentines who have rendered themfelves memorable by the art of mufic ; but all thoie of former times have been far furpaffed by Francefco Cieco, who ftill lives ; and who, during childhood, was deprived of light by the fmall-pox. He was the fon of Jacopo, a Florentine painter, of great probity and fimplicity ot manners; and being arrived at adolefcence, and beginning to be fenfible of the mifery of blindnefs, 111 order to diminifh the horror of perpetual night, he began in a childifh manner to fing; but advancing towards matuiitv, and becoming more and more captivated with mufic, he began ferioufly to ftudy it, as an art, firft by learning to ling, and afterwards by ap- plying himfelf to the practice of inlhuments, particularly the organ, which he loon played, without ever having feen the keys, in fo mafteriy and fweet a manner, as aftonifhed every hearer. Indeed, his fuperiority was loon acknow- ledged fo univerfally, that, by the common content of all the muficians of his time, he was publicly honoured at Venice with the laurel crown for his pe
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