note: FallowsCat, 624-5; CattinCI, 431-2 (with comparison of Spanish & Italian texts); RubsamenLS, 16-17. Survives in four different versions and lute tablature (c. 19 extant sources); the most popular of all 15thc. songs. Music ed. in StevensonC, 228 (CMC); IMM/iv, 28 (Pix); HewittO, 226 (Odh version w/added voice); ed. & discussed in PerkinsMAR, 492-4 (see FallowsCat, 624 for further editions). Music adapted by Tromboncino as a macaronic barzelletta (‘Nunqua[m] fu pena maggiore’; in PetF/iii & Bas2441, ed. CesariLF, 136), and T & D voices cited in a number of other compositions. Cited in Italian (esp. Florentine) sources with Latin version of incipit, ‘Nunquam fuit pena (poena) maior’. In LA424, lauda sent to ‘Francesco miniatore’; cc. = ‘Nunquam fu pena maior’.
