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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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He’s also an architect who designed a new soccer stadium in the Tuscan city of Arezzo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

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

Crucially, Poppea shows how far music’s social function had come since Guido of Arezzo put notation on the map.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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