LA424

note: FallowsCat, 507. LA424 indicates the lauda was sent to Ser Firenze prete, a Florentine singer and composers who was perhaps responsible for the musical setting of the cc. in Pix. Text incomplete in Pix, which appears to provide the refrain and first piede of a ballata.

note: in LA424, ‘della sanctissima croce’; sent to Maestro Bernardino frate in Sancta Croce.

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: CattinCI, 422. LA424--’cantasi come por prisoner, mandata a Ser Firenze, prete’.

note: in LA424, ‘della passione di Cristo’, sent to Pagolo di Jacopo vaiaio.

note: in LA424, ‘mandata a Cristofano ottonaio’; this is the lauda poet and singer Cristofano da Miniato, a brassworker who whose first recorded activity is as a singer for the Company of San Zanobi in 1456. He wrote two extant laude with cc. links: ‘Vergine alta Regina’ and ‘Vergine santa immaculata e pura’; see WilsonMM, 176; WilsonHM, 291.

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: according to LA424 rubric, d’Albizo’s lauda sent to nuns at Santa Chiara.

note: LA424: lauda sent to ‘monache di Sancta Chiara’, a Franciscan convent in the Oltrarno to which d’Albizo sent a number of his laude. Rz1563 & M365 transmit a different lauda (BaG) with similar incipit (‘Lodian col puro core, e con la mente/Cecilia sacra’ attributed to Fra. Hilario Buoninsegni da Siena.

note: lauda re. St. Francis. In LA424, lauda sent to ‘Frate Francesco Brandi, fra minore observanto’.