Pal119

note: see CattinS,271 re. ‘Guidami tu’. Lauda text entered in R2929, which was copied by 1448.

note: Cantus melody for ‘Facciam’ (Ferr84), ed. in Carboni-ZiinoLM, 318

note: alternate cc. = ‘Ora mai sono in età’.

note: alternate cc. = ‘Ora mai sono in età’, ‘I’son l’angiol buon di Dio’

note: alternate cc. = ‘O crocifisso’

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: lauda re. nativity. Lucrezia (Lorenzo de’ Medici’s mother) died in 1482, so this and all other laude by her were written by this time.

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’.