note: text & music ed. Mancuso, 680-7. See MaceyB, 113-15, where Razzi’s setting is edited and underlaid with the text of Savonarola’s ‘Alma che sì gentile sei per amor’ (which along with d’Astore’s ‘Alma che sì gentile/ti fé’ have poetic forms and rhyme schemes identical to ‘Deh dolce redentor’). Music ed. with all 3 texts in MaceyS, 71-9; texts ed. & trans. xlviii-l. Gall4/Pal120/R196 transmit variant incipit ‘O dolce redentor’, and no cc. MaceyB reconstructs the chain of cc. links: d’Astore’s lauda had its own setting or could be sung to the tune of ‘O benigno Signore’ (Gall2); no music for ‘O benigno Signore’ survives, but in BNF, J.VIII.5 (late 16thc), ‘Signore soccorri aita’ (see Bartolomeo’s a4 setting) could be sung to ‘O benigno Signore’ or ‘O dolce redentore’. Thus, the setting in Rz1563 is a possible source for all of these texts.
