Quant’è grande la bellezza-a BaG:8 (xyyx ababbccx)

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Poet:

Lorenzo de’ Medici

Language:

Lauda:

Quanto è grande la dolcezza
BaG:8 (xyyx ababbccx)

Lauda Poet:

Bernardo
Giambullari

Notes:

note: MaceyB, 38-40 (text & trans. + secular model for Lorenzo’s lauda, his carnival song ‘Quant’è bella giovinezza’, the Trionfo di Bacco, for the carnival of 1490); RubsamenQ, 163-84; OsthoffT, i, 114-18. Music ed. GallucciFFM, 6-7; OsthoffT, ii, 155-6 (both from Rz1563, but fitted with carnival song text); Mancuso, 304-10 (Rz1563); RubsamenQ, 181-2. Gall3 lists cc. for Lorenzo’s lauda as the ‘Canzona del forese’ (‘Lasse in questo carnasciale’), but the more likely poetic model is Lorenzo’s own secular carnival song. Though Gall4 lacks a cc indication, the close modelling of Giambullari’s lauda upon Lorenzo’s suggest that the former was sung like the latter. Lorenzo’s lauda is ed. in ToscaniL, 84-7. According to BecheriniSR, 208, Giambullari’s lauda was sung in Rappresentazione di Costantino Imperatore, San Silvestro Papa by the mothers celebrating Constantine’s rescue of the their children from sacrifice on pagan altars.

Music Sources:

Rz1563(a3)

RC395 (CT)

BR230 (TB only)

Cantasi Come Sources:

[Gall4]