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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
The Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's first wife was Lucrezia Gori, whom he married in 1547. They had three sons together: Rodolfo, Angelo, and Iginio. Lucrezia passed away during a series of epidemics that affected central Italy in the late 1570s.1