Nicola Vicentino
（重定向自Vicentino）
![Frontispiece in the Vicentino's treatise on music. Inscriptions: 1 (outer circle) Incerta et occulta scientiae tuae manifestasti mihi;[1] 2 (inner circle) Archicymbali divisionis chromaticique ac enarmonici generis praticae inventor;[2] 3 (under the portrait) Nicolas Vicentinus anno aetatis suae XXXXIIII[3]](/Images/godic/202502/19/Vicentino22910.jpg")
![Cathedral of Ferrara. Ferrara was the principal center of chromatic experimentation in the second half of the 16th century.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Ferrara_022910.jpg")
![Keyboard of the Archicembalo](/Images/godic/202502/19/Archicembalo_en_Cents2910.jpg")
Nicola Vicentino (1511 – 1575 or 1576) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most visionary musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard.