R2356

note: FallowsCat, 332; PopeM, 644-6; WilsonSC, 88; CattinR, no.106. Music ed. CMM88, 30 & NanenE, no.31 (EscB), PopeM, 474 (MC), PerkinsM, ii, no.53 (Mel). Form and rhyme scheme of lauda closely modeled on the French rondeau; see CattinCI, 428-9, who suggests (along with PopeM, 646) that the lauda was conceived as a rondeau quatrain. Incipit of Fr. text in lauda sources frequently appears as ‘Plus que...’

note: on extant musical settings of the lauda text, see CattinCon, 57 (Ven, based on the ‘Verbum car factum est’ melody, which confirms the cc. link in Triv535). According to CattinCon, 73, the lauda text dates from the era of the Bianchi (c. 1400).

note: lauda re. Sta. Margherita

note: = Bedyngham’s ‘Fortune elas’, possibly an originally English text. See FallowsCat, 521-2, where he also briefly discusses Giustinian’s doubtful authorship of the cc. text; CarboniE, 451-2; WilsonSC, 18; PirrottaMC, 153-5 (ed. of 1st stanza); PerkinsM, ii, no. 46 (ed. of text). Music ed. ThibaultM, p. 8 (Cord); HanenE, iii, no. 101 & LuisiLG, ii, 234 (EscB); PerkinsM, i, no. 46 (Mel); PopeM, 376 (MC). Listed in index of Q16. See PrizerG re. performance of ‘Fortuna’ on organ in 1460 for Rodrigo Borgia. In LA424, lauda sent to ‘Ser Firenze prete in Orto San Michele [Orsanmichele] cantore’.

note: FallowsCat, 591. Facs. of Pix version in BrownF, i, plate 16. Inscribed the initial ‘O’ in Ch266, fol. 292v is ‘f.b. mi fecie’, most likely an ascription of the lauda text to Feo Belcari.

note: CattinR, 32; CattinCI, 419. LA424: ‘cantasi come mosir placer, mandata alle monache delle murate’. The Murate was a wealthy Benedictine convent, criticized by Savonarola for their cultivation of figural music; see MaceyB, 95-6. The association of this lauda and its secular polyphonic cc. link appears to confirm Savonarola’s appraisal.

note: see also ReidemeisterC, 95. CattinR, 32; CattinCI, 419.

note: CattinCI, 419. Alternate cc. = ‘J’ay pris amours’, modo proprio.

note: see FallowsCat, 285-6; CattinCI, 419. Music ed. in ThibaultM, 65 (Cord); HanenE, no. 23 (EscB); LuisiLG, ii, 165 & SchavranP, ii, 25 (Pav362); EMS28, no. 1 (Pix; w/possibly earlier Eng. text, ‘Mi verry joy’, on which see FallowsW); CMM1/vi, no. 90 (Porto), GutiérrezW, 59 (Wolf). For citations of melody, see FallowsCat, 285.