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note: though the lauda is transmitted in Pal120 and R196 with a cc. of modo proprio, the poetic model is clearly Petrarch’s canzone, ‘Be mi credea passar mio tempo omai’, of which there is a musical setting by Tromboncino in PetF/xi, ed. LuisiFr, no. 7. Tromboncino’s cantus in this piece is unusually declamatory, more reciting tone than full-fledged melody.

note: VB3711 bears no cc., but the rubric ‘fece Feo Belchari et madolla ad papa Pagolo Sicondo [1464-71]’; two surviving letters by Belcari dated Sept. 9, 1467 and July 1 1468 record his efforts to send his lauda ‘de’ fructi della carità’ (the rubric for ‘Chi se veste’) to this pope through his longtime friend Piero dell’Orto, the bishop of Massa Marittima; see FigliouoloT, 269-70. On the cc., see FallowsCat, 504-5; GallicoRM, 54; CattinNR, 274; ZiinoNF, 237-9 (fragment). Music ed. Kottick, CMM42 & ThibaultM, 4 (Cord); CattinG, no.22 with text ‘Cum desiderio io vo cercando’ (Grey); LuisiLG, ii, 32 & Diederichs, 302 (Panc27, also w/text ‘Cum desiderio’). Grey & Panc27 versions (w/lauda texts) based on D & T of Cord. Older version a2 in AT A.5, which presumably forms the basis of the Cord version. On AT A.5, see ZiinoNF (facsimile pl. 3, partial transcription 245). 1513/1 melody (a citation within the context of a barzelletta, ‘Se mia trista e dura sorte’, set to music by Niccolò Brocco) ed. JeppesenF, iii, 53, and compared to the Cord melody in ThibaultM, lxxvi. Different cc. in Gall1 (‘O lasso me’) & M690 (‘Si fortemente son tracto’).

note: see FallowsCat, 504 (where he suggests, based presumably upon the bipartite musical form in Per431, that the poetic fragment in Per431 is a ballata, but its rhyme scheme and form, as well as the form of the lauda model, suggest otherwise); CattinR, no.100. Music ed. Hernon, 347-51.

note: See CattinS, 271-3. Alternate cc. = ‘Quando Isaac ascende il monte cou [sic] Abraam’ (a reference to Belcari’s Rappresentazione d’Abramo e Isacco, 1449). A similar incipit in Gall4, ‘Tu se’ dolce Dio Signor superno’, which carries a cc. of ‘Aimè ch’ i’ moro’ (Str:11) cross-references the reader to the two stanzas of ‘Tutto se’ dolce’ found in Gall2 (p. 72), which is part of Belcari’s play (lines 393-408), and follow Isaac’s descent after the Angel’s intervention. The rubric reads: ‘Isaac prende il coltello in mano e discende il monte giubilando, e cantando dice: Tutto se’ dolce...’; the text of the play is ed. by Emilio Faccioli, «Il teatro italiano: dalle origini al Quattrocento», 2 vols. (Torino, Einaudi 1975), I, pp. 131-49; see also BecheriniSR, 199.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Se mai la tua virtù’, rispetti

note: this older lauda is found in 14thc. laudarios like BML, Ashburnham 423, fol. 194r-v.