Gall4

note: in LA424, sent to Fra Tebaldo, camerlingo in the hospital of Santa Maria Novella.

note: Gall4 gives only ‘Perché’ as cc, but ‘Perché l’amor di Dio’ served several d’Albizo laude as a cc. in Gall2 & related sources. LA424: lauda ‘mandata a ser Firenze prete in orto sanmichele (Orsanmichele)’.

note: Gall4 cc = ‘e Valenziani’, almost certainly the carnival song, ‘Canzona de’ Valenziana’ or ‘de’ Profumi’. Music transmitted in BR230, & Rz1563 w/ text of ‘O maligno e duro core’.

note: text of ‘O Maria’ differs from another attr. to Giustiniani, ‘O Maria Magdalena/o peccatrice a Dio’

note: Gall4 & related sources transmit ‘cantasi come---Della ingratitudine de’ peccatori’, but this is probably an erroneous transmission from an earlier ms. source of the topical rubric, mistaken in the later printed sources as a cc. title. In LA424, the lauda is transmitted with this topical rubric, but no cc. indication, and a rubric explaining that this lauda was ‘mandata a uno amico optimo’.

note: lauda a prayer to the Virgin for protection of the Florentine people from war, famine & disease.

note: lauda is a brief dialogue between Jesus and the sinner.

note: though neither title can be found among the lists of extant carnival songs, the lauda’s carnivalesque incipit suggests that the secular model was a carnival song. GhisiCC, 90.