Maria vergine bella, scala-b BaG (xYyX AbAbbCcX)

note: in Rz1563, music printed with text ‘Maria vergine bella’, and text of ‘Madre del gran signore/scala che ascendi’ on following page with no cantasi come indication, however the identity of the line lengths make certain the link. Music ed. LuisiLG,ii,73-4; Mancuso,663-9. Probably same as cc. = ‘O Maria vergine bella’, which is the cc. for a lauda (‘Diva vergine bella’) with an identical form. This text of the cc., a popular lauda, is ed. in Luisi, i, 274, where its structure as a ballata grande is clear (the fragmentary text in Rz1563 is transcribed in Mancuso, where she calls it a canzone).