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note: Diederichs, 101f.; music ed. 306-9. Text of cc. ed. LuisiLG, i, 297; music ed. ii, 40 (Q15) and 41 (Pav361). Cc. text in Gall3.

note: although the incipits of lauda and cc. are identical, the cc. is probably a secular model, neither the text nor music of which has survived.

note: RostirollaB, 704. Facs. of Anim1577 in RostirollaTL, 31. See ‘Ora mai sono it età’ as an alternate cc. for this lauda, and WilsonHM.

note: Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Ecco’l bambino’ (LCS161). Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Che fai qui core’ (LCS161). Lucrezia’s lauda predates her death in 1482.

note: carnival song for May Day. Source for poem relates ‘Canzone d’Angelo Politiano di maggio; la quale s’aveva a chantare per donne nell’entrare de giostranti in campo: e coronandogli per loro amore giostravano’ (ed. MaceyS, 227). MaceyB, 57, 125f; LuisiBV, passim; CattinS, 270-1; CattinRP, 384-5; RostirollaB, 685. On the melodic tradition of ‘Ben venga Maggio’, esp. its relationshi[ to the ‘Tentalora’ melody; see LuisiT and LuisiCB. In Rz1563 w/text ‘Ecco’l Messia’; Pal173 w/’Ecco la stella’, and RC395 w/’Ecco’l signore’. Music ed. GallucciFFM, 1; MaceyS, 61-5 (w/alternate texts, ‘Ecco’l Messia’ & ‘Che fai qui core’); ed. and discussed in PerkinsMAR, 416-18. Osthoff, i, 153 fits Poliziano’s text to a2 music of ‘Ecco’l Messia’ in Rz1563. Cantus transmitted in Savonarola’s biographies (BML, San Marco 429 & BS Lucca 2415). Cf. Savonarolan laude ‘Che fai qui core’ & ‘Ecce quam bonum’, as well as many other lauda texts by Lucrezia Tornabuoni and others that draw on the music of ‘Ben venga Maggio’.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Purità Dio ti mantenga’ (Gall2, Rs424). Song reconstructed from T of Cornago Mass of same name in GerberC, further reconstructed by AtlasAV, 109-20 (w/full discussion and fuller recovery of the cc. text). Melody also ed. in JeppesenF, iii, 128. The original poem and its melody were known at the Neapolitan court by ca. 1453.

note: see CattinR, 36. Cc. = popular ternario (terza rima), formed around an acrostic of ‘Ave Maria’. Cc. text entered in R2929, which was copied by 1448; ed. LuisiLG, i, 381-2. See ‘Ave tempio’ as a cc. for Belcari’s ‘Salve regina di misericordia’ for musical settings that can be linked to the former.