Quanto sia lieto il giorno-e Cz (abC abC cDdeE)
Poet:
Niccolò Machiavelli
Language:
it-mad
Composer:
Philippe Verdelot
Lauda:
Vergin gloriosa madre de’ peccatori 8:7/11 (ABABbCDD)
Lauda Poet:
Alessandro
Guglielmi
Notes:
note: EinsteinIM, i, 250-1; Fenlon/HaarIM, 155 (concordant sources). This madrigal à4 appears in the Prologue of Machiavelli’s La Clizia. The story is set in Florence during the 1506 Carnival season, but the play was written and first performed in 1525; see discussion of the dramatic context in PirrottaMT, 128f, with ed. of music on 131-3. Music ed. SlimG, ii, 341-3.