The career of the Italian
lutenist Marco Dall'Aquila was based in Venice, where he was given a licence to
print lute tablature. He is acknowledged in the preface to Francesco da
Milano's work published in 1536 as an important predecessor.
Lute Music
Relatively little
survives of Marco Dall'Aquila's lute music and nothing of what he may have
printed himself, under licence in Venice, in the early days of music printing
at the beginning of the 16th century.