O rosa bella o dolce anima mia-b BaMn:11 (xx ababbx)

note: FallowsCat, 545-50. Music ed. PMFC24, no.34 (PC); DTO15, 227 & ClercxC, ii, no.15. FallowsLG, 251-4 argues persuasively for Giustinian’s authorship of ‘O rosa bella’, which must have been set by Ciconia prior to the latter’s death in 1412. Though the Ch266 cc. incipit could refer to the Bedyngham [?] setting, the inclusion in Ch266 of his ‘Con lagrime bagnandome’ and ‘Dolce fortuna’ as cc. titles, suggests that Ciconia’s ‘O rosa’ is the intended model. The cc. title appears in Simone Prodenzani’s Il Saporecto (ca. 1415), sonnet 35; see CilibertiP, 23-34, and NàdasCR.