Alma che sì gentile/ti fe’-a BaG (xYyX AbAbbCcX)
Poet:
Gherardo d’Astore
Language:
it
Lauda:
Alma che sì gentile/sei per-a
BaG (xYyX AbAbbCcX)
Lauda Poet:
Girolamo Savonarola
Notes:
note: Savonarola’a lauda modeled on d’Astore’s ‘Alma che sì gentile/ti fe’, a ballata grande w/rhyme scheme identical to ‘Deh dolce redentore’ with music in Rz1563; see reconstruction/ed. in MaceyS, 71-9; text ed. & translated on xlix-l. D’Astore’s lauda had modo proprio and cc. = ‘O benigno Signore’. ‘O benigno’ & ‘O dolce redentore’ [Deh dolce’] are also cc. sources for ‘Signore soccorri aita’ (BNF J.VIII.5)
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