Dalla più alta stella disces’in terra 7:7/11 (aBcBccA)

note: Rs424 rubric = ‘lauda di San Vincentio martire et levita per la festa de’ giovani’. Given the association of the latter sections of Rs424 with the Convent of San Marco & Savonarola, this lauda must belong to a group of youth laude associated with the Savonarolan ‘fanciulli’, and with the Company of the Purification in particular; see WilsonHM, 292-7. The model for Lorenzo’s lauda is Divizio’s carnival song, the ‘Trionfo della dea Minerva’, ‘Dalla più alta stella discende a celebrare’, music ed. in GallucciFFM, no. 8; Mancuso, no. 82.