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Arezzo

American  
[uh-ret-soh, ah-ret-tsaw] / əˈrɛt soʊ, ɑˈrɛt tsɔ /

noun

  1. a city in central Italy.


Arezzo British  
/ aˈrettso, əˈrɛtsəʊ /

noun

  1. Ancient Latin name: Arretium.  a city in central Italy, in E Tuscany. Pop: 91 589 (2001)

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According to the Italian article, NWA 16788, was "sold by the local community to an international dealer" and was then transferred to a private gallery in the Italian city of Arezzo.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025

Vasari's letter, which disappeared from the archive of the Fraternita dei Laici institution in Arezzo in 2001, was recovered with the help of Sotheby's auction house in London and Brussels, police said.

From Reuters • Jun. 29, 2023

The first, which arrives in September, tells the story of the Guido of Arezzo, the 11th century Benedictine monk who invented staff notation, which enabled music to be written down for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2022

“I got here as soon as I could,” said Fenton, who had been studying abroad in Arezzo, Italy, until his program was suspended at the onset of the pandemic.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2021

It took an Italian monk, immortalised as Guido of Arezzo, to crack the code in around ad iooo and give Western music its unique system of notation, still in use today.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall