Vergine santa e bella

note: PetL/i & Como1600 settings of ‘Spirito santo amore’, which differ, are ed. LuisiLG, ii, 128-33. On ‘Spirito santo amore’, and musical settings in the later Roman sources, see RostirollaLC, 705-6. There are ten further madrigal settings of this lauda text by Palestrina in his Primo libro de’ madrigali (1581). See also the cc. reconstructions based on 17thc. sources in LuisiLG, ii, 189-92 (‘Amor divino’ on 191, where the text of the ripresa is provided); Giustinian text ed. i, 258. Cc. text entered in R2929, which was copied by 1448. Cc. possibly refers to ‘Amor divino amore/amor che non se amato’, a very old lauda attr. in many sources to Jacopone da Todi (e.g. BML, Ashburnham 1072, 29r, where the form is a Ba2/4:7 (xy aaax bbbx cccx...).

Music Sources:

Nap1608 PetL/i

Mil1576

Cantasi Come Sources:

Nap1608

Cantasi come - Nap1608 PetL/i

Vergine santa e bella

Amor, divino amore BaG (xxyY ...?]