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note: MaceyB,141-4, text is edited & translated, and music transcribed, as it is in MaceyS, 102 (both texts). Razzi’s music derives from Nola’s Neapolitan song, first published in Il primo libro delle villanelle alla napolitana (Venice, 1567), and his text is datable to 1595. On MaceyB, 144, there is a translation of Razzi’s account of how ‘once the author heard the singing of a certain canzonetta for three voices, and this aria seemed to him so pretty and pleased him so much that to make it available to religious persons, he composed for it the preceding lauda of Saint Mary Magdalene...’ Razzi’s lauda differs from a lauda of identical incipit in the much earlier Ch266.