ABSTRACT
Milan was a city in which daily operations were centralized in medio civitatis, for the civic structures most frequently accessed by its dignitaries and officials, which included the gubernatorial palace, the cathedral, and the Archiepiscopal offices, were both centrally located and in close proximity to one another. The newly constructed Gothic Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore, more commonly known as the Duomo, stood at the epicenter of Cesariano’s Milan. The construction and the maintenance of the Duomo were matters of general civic interest and responsibility, and were under the auspices of the Fabbrica of the Duomo. Most of the singers hired at the Duomo of Milan during the sixteenth century were Italians rather than oltremontani, and this practice reflects the tacit adherence to a policy that had been introduced under Werrecore’s predecessor, Franchinus Gaffiirius.
