GUI 
“the principal i is “ A Defcription of the Low Countries,”’ 
which is in great ake —~ the accuracy of its relations. 
His other works are ‘ Commentaries on the Affairs of © 
urope, meinen: 8 in lube Low pereansiga from 1 529 to 
1560.” “ Reinarkable words and aétion rinces,’’ &c. 
* Hours of A sar 3? anda colle ion: of the — 
and maxims of his illuftrious relation. 
the cathedral of Pee gg where an honourable eine 
is placed:to his memory. 
We fhould not have thought him entitled to notice, as 
miu odisfibabs' writer, except to difpute his opinion concerning 
shat invention gf counter-point. 
Intrave'lling through the Netherlands, in 1772, in fearch of 
materials for a “General Hiftory of Mufic,’’ we did not quit 
Ghent without vifiting the principal libraries there, in hopes 
of meeting with ancient manuleript mufic, whic 
certain the affertion of Lodovico Guicciardini, that counter- 
point took its rife,:and was firft cultivated in Flanders ; 
but we neither found at the abbey of St. veers oldeft 
and richeft'in Flanders) nor at the Auguftines, or Domini- 
eans, a the libraries are very confiderable, any thing to 
eur purpo' 
Butat ‘Antwerp we fully expe&ted to meet with materials 
the moft important to the hiftory of ane or mufic 
in different parts, as it was here, according to Lodovico 
Guicciardini, —_ after, him, feveral others, ihe took the 
fact. wpon > that moft of the great Flemith mutficians, 
Mee fw armed all over Europe in the ney gee were 
“Bhe Abbé a Bos (Reflex. ti 
hie.'eloge rere ¥ 
i e any: knowledge,” 
afferts roundly that « mufic had its birth in Flanders ;’” and, 
in confirmation of this affertion, quotes Lodovico Guicciar- 
dini’s Defeription of the Low Countries, as an — 
vouch in fupport of act. 
Guicciardini int, indeed, a hf of more ‘tiers 20 eminent 
muficians and Nesherlanders, who flourifhed at the 
eid of the sth, and during the 16th century, who were 
difperfed in ail the courts of Europe ; but, unluckily, at the 
head of thefe he pees John Tinétor de Nivelle, five leagues 
from Bruflels, w from arrogating to himfelf, or his 
countrymen, the invention et counter-point, or iriufte: in 
parts, gives it to an Englifkman Speaking of counter- 
point, he fays : « Cust ita dicam nove artis Aor a 
apud Anglos,. qvoram caput Dunitable exiftit 
hibettr.’’ The title of TinQor’s tra@y which we never Ww, 
exéept in Padre Martini’s collection, is_the following : 
“ J'raét, mutices Explanat. Tenor. natura et 
propriet. de notis et Paulis. de reg grits — 
alterat. notar. de arte contrap.”” 
The tetioni of pig er ge se Tinétor are very Te- 
of the gift. That the 
: rt cena cnt dandy a 
his viaery of the? Dew Cor nined to give the ac 
peeple snoog Win be Bee Ga haat py ufeful as 
might ale . 
ent. treichaie is the ‘es mn 
ral ‘ 
in pe pent ces 
GUI 
from a contrary principle, wifhed to give the honeur to the 
Flemings, in order to pilfer it from them afterwards in fa- 
vour of his own country, France 
GUICHE, La, in ‘Geography, atown of France, in the 
department of the Saone and Loire, and the chief GE of 
acanton, in the diftri& of Charolles; nine miles N. N. E. of 
Charolles.. The place contains 1047, an and the canton n 63 5 
tabaprtaness on a territory of 2174 kiliometres, in twelve 
commune 
GUI CHEN, a town of France; in the department of 
the Ille and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trict of Rédon. The’ place contains 2660, and the — 
11,820 inhabitants, on a territory ot 2624 kilometres, 
eight communes. 
GUIDA, dial. as Dux, in face. implies, in Auf fc the 
part in fugues and canons which leads off, or begins the 
fubje&t, and which the confeguenza, or part which comes m 
fecond, is to anfwer. See Pr oposta, ANTECEDENTE, Parusa, 
and SocceTro.. 
GUIDAGE, Gumacrum, i in Ancient’ Law Writers, mo- 
ney paid for fafe conduct through unknown ways; ora ftr range 
country. 2 
GUIDES, i in Military Lagoa: are ufually the country 
people in the neighbourhood of a ampment ;. who give. 
the army intelligence concerning nag sous; the reads by 
srs they are to march, and the probable route of the 
“GUIDL ALrxanper, i in Biography, an Italian poet, | 
was born at Pavia in 1650. At an early age he ae to = 
court of Rannucio II. duke of Parma, by w 
much favoured and efteemed.. He was firit res 
poet, by the publication of fome lyric sore and ard 
éntiled “ escape n It He afterwards vifited 
Rome,’ and frequented ie court of the abdicated queen 
Chriftina, whic employed him to compofe a piece of mufic 
to celebrate the spcallibk of James Ll. of England: He 
endeavoured to reform the Italian poctrys but his example 
was but little followed. His: = rited. aad vi- 
pee accompanied in his expedition to Tunis, and on © jo, = 
Dale oy Pt me rant the jee 15 9, de ct oe 
