Anima benedetta [dell’alto creatore] BaG:7 (xyyx ababbccx)

note: CattinR, 43, no.70; RostirollaB, 680. There is a monodic setting of the lauda in Ven145, a different 2-part version in Pal472 (ed. Diederichs, 408), & a 4-part setting in Anim1563. All 3 are ed. in LuisiLG, ii, 6-11, with text ed. i, 259-10. Gall3 = ‘Donna esto mio lamento, vinitiana’. The lauda also enjoyed an extended life in early 17thc. lauda prints (Lodi et Canzonette, 1608); see LuisiLG, ii, 147-9. In 1589/2, ‘Anima benedetta’ sung to a3 setting of ‘Jesù nostro riscatto’. The lauda may be modeled on the 14thc. secular ballata ‘Era tutta soletta in un prato d’amore’ (ed. CarducciCBSM, 67-8), which shares the same rhyme scheme of the refrain ‘Anima benedetta’, as well as its BaG:7 form. Cc. text variously attributed to Giustinian, Jacopone da Todi, and Clemente Pandolfini; entered in R2929, which was copied by 1448.