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As early as in 1994, I came in possession of a cassette. CD's were rather a new thing, I didn't have any CD player then. The recording was a collection of Gregorian chants, one of the earliest attempts to retrieve part of our Catholic (and) medieval heritage. I tried a transcription of the texts just listening to the music and recalling my scholastic Latin. Soon my ears and my Latin became insufficient to such a work and I looked for liturgical books or any material about Gregorian music. When in 1995 internet appeared in my university, I started searching whatever I couldn't have found in libraries (internet looked then like a library, e-commerce would have come later). There was a sequence in the cassettes, whose text I had never found anywhere: an old sequence to the Virgin titled "Ave mundi spes Maria", meaning "Hail Mary, hope of the world". Not even on internet and for a long while I could find anything about it (it is not so common to publish something about an ancient prayer which nobody uses any more). I tried with all the search engines I knew, but for months nothing was the constant result. One day I managed to find the text (with some mistakes) and I was really happy. On the whole, I chose "avemundi" as my pseudonym for three main reasons:
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