Maggio valente [lo fior d’estate]

note: D’AnconaPP, 486. Music with same incipit in M108; see BeccheriniCat, 44 where the full title is given as ‘Maggio valente lo fior dell’estate’ among 20 other ‘canzoni a ballo’, and the ms. dated to the 2nd half of the 16thc. Melody ed. JeppesenF, iii, 94. GhisiCC, 98 lists it among carnival songs paired with laude, and gives the subtitle: ‘Era di maggio era la primavera’, but this latter is the title of a different piece in M108 (see JeppesenF, iii, 93). Lauda incipit and cc. title in Ch266, fol. 75r, but omitted from LuisiLG, i, 200-201.