Fusignano

His name was Arcangelo Corelli.

He was born on the 17th of February, 1653, in a small agricultural village called Fusignano in the Po Valley of Italy, part of the Papal States.

He died on the 8th of January, 1713, in Rome.

59 years old, and with a legacy so enormous that it would shape the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and every serious composer of the following generation.

The Corelli family was not poor.

They were, in fact, quite prosperous.

By 1662, the various branches of the family jointly owned nearly a fifth of Fusignano's entire territory.

Hundreds of plots of farmland and woodland near Ferrara and Ravenna, plus significant livestock.