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pastorale
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pastorale Music
1. a composition evocative of rural life, characterized by moderate compound duple or quadruple time and sometimes a droning accompaniment
2. a musical play based on a rustic story, popular during the 16th century


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Havendo inteso questo Consiglio dalla scrittura hora letta come li Comedi gelosi ricercano licentia di poter rappresentar per tratenimento della citta soggetti pastorali, et tragici et comedie honestissime non si deve mancar di esaudirli con tale honeste conditioni, pero L'andera parte, che sia per questi restanti giorni del Carnovale concessa licentia alli predetti Comici di poter recitar le comedie con ogni modestia, et honesta com'e predetto.
In January 1585, even prior to the arrival of the emissaries in Rome, he responded to the written and verbal entreaties he had received by issuing the brief Ex pastorali officio, which forbade any order other than the Jesuits from entering Japan.
 
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