Database

note: See CattinSq, 251; WilsonSC, 73; Diederichs, 70. Ed. in PMFC8, 101-2.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Purità Dio ti mantenga’, ‘Galantina amorosina’

note: Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: see ‘Ecco’l messia’ and ‘Ben venga Maggio-a’ as cc for musical settings applicable to ‘Nel tuo furore’. The 4-part setting by Dammonis in PetL/i is ed. in JeppesenL, no. 89, and preserves a version of the Savonarolan melody ‘Ecce quam bonum’.

note: RostirollaB, 709 (‘Jesù è nato’). The melody in Anim1563 is unrelated the ‘Ben venga’ melody found in Florentine sources.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Che fai qui core’ (LCS161). Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Ben veng’amore’ in M365. See MaceyB, 104-7; ed. w/Savonarola’s text in MaceyS, 64-5

note: carnival song for May Day. Source for poem relates ‘Canzone d’Angelo Politiano di maggio; la quale s’aveva a chantare per donne nell’entrare de giostranti in campo: e coronandogli per loro amore giostravano’ (ed. MaceyS, 227). MaceyB, 57, 125f; LuisiBV, passim; CattinS, 270-1; CattinRP, 384-5; RostirollaB, 685. On the melodic tradition of ‘Ben venga Maggio’, esp. its relationshi[ to the ‘Tentalora’ melody; see LuisiT and LuisiCB. In Rz1563 w/text ‘Ecco’l Messia’; Pal173 w/’Ecco la stella’, and RC395 w/’Ecco’l signore’. Music ed. GallucciFFM, 1; MaceyS, 61-5 (w/alternate texts, ‘Ecco’l Messia’ & ‘Che fai qui core’); ed. and discussed in PerkinsMAR, 416-18. Osthoff, i, 153 fits Poliziano’s text to a2 music of ‘Ecco’l Messia’ in Rz1563. Cantus transmitted in Savonarola’s biographies (BML, San Marco 429 & BS Lucca 2415). Cf. Savonarolan laude ‘Che fai qui core’ & ‘Ecce quam bonum’, as well as many other lauda texts by Lucrezia Tornabuoni and others that draw on the music of ‘Ben venga Maggio’.