note: CattinR, no.119; GhisiCC, 99; MaceyB, 55, 138. Cc. is Giambullari’s carnival song, the Canzona dell’Orso, for which the refrain incipit is ‘Omè, omè, omè’, and ‘Siamo stati’ the incipit of the first strophe. The ‘Omè’ refrain recurs as well at the end of each strophe of Belcari’s lauda text (which is clearly modelled on the carnival song text), and also in the different lauda text preserved with music in Rz1563, ‘O anima accecata tu vai per mala via’, which appears to have been modelled upon Belcari’s text; ed. in Mancuso, 412-14. It is therefore quite likely that Razzi’s setting preserves something of the original music for ‘Siamo stati’. Cc. text ed. SingletonCC, 20-21, and BruscagliTCC, i, 237-8. According to a rubric in M119, this lauda ‘fece la feo balchari e ffu l’u[l[tima’; NosowB, 225 took this to mean that ‘O anima’ was among the last laude Belcari wrote before his death in 1484, but ‘O anima’ belongs to a part of M119 copied by its owner, Bruno di Nicholaio di Matteo Lachi, and bound on Oct. 15, 1481. ‘O anima’, therefore, was probably among Belcari’s most recent poems in 1481. Both carnival song and lauda share the same unusual sequence of line lengths: 6/6 7/7/7/7/7/5/5/6.
