CS1545

note: Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Ecco’l bambino’ (LCS161). Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Che fai qui core’ (LCS161). Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: carnival song for May Day. Source for poem relates ‘Canzone d’Angelo Politiano di maggio; la quale s’aveva a chantare per donne nell’entrare de giostranti in campo: e coronandogli per loro amore giostravano’ (ed. MaceyS, 227). MaceyB, 57, 125f; LuisiBV, passim; CattinS, 270-1; CattinRP, 384-5; RostirollaB, 685. On the melodic tradition of ‘Ben venga Maggio’, esp. its relationshi[ to the ‘Tentalora’ melody; see LuisiT and LuisiCB. In Rz1563 w/text ‘Ecco’l Messia’; Pal173 w/’Ecco la stella’, and RC395 w/’Ecco’l signore’. Music ed. GallucciFFM, 1; MaceyS, 61-5 (w/alternate texts, ‘Ecco’l Messia’ & ‘Che fai qui core’); ed. and discussed in PerkinsMAR, 416-18. Osthoff, i, 153 fits Poliziano’s text to a2 music of ‘Ecco’l Messia’ in Rz1563. Cantus transmitted in Savonarola’s biographies (BML, San Marco 429 & BS Lucca 2415). Cf. Savonarolan laude ‘Che fai qui core’ & ‘Ecce quam bonum’, as well as many other lauda texts by Lucrezia Tornabuoni and others that draw on the music of ‘Ben venga Maggio’.

note: see CattinR, 36. Cc. = popular ternario (terza rima), formed around an acrostic of ‘Ave Maria’. Cc. text entered in R2929, which was copied by 1448; ed. LuisiLG, i, 381-2. See ‘Ave tempio’ as a cc. for Belcari’s ‘Salve regina di misericordia’ for musical settings that can be linked to the former.

note: alternate cc. for ‘Temo non poter’ = ‘Lacrimoso aflicto e stanco’ (R196,Gall1)

note: Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: CS1545--’rispetti a ballo’