BR230

note: JeppesenF, ii, 144 (3vv); BlackburnTCS,174-5, where she identifies the pieces as a ‘canzona’.

note: CattinCC, 214 attributes cc. (a lauda) to Castellani, as well. ‘Deh torna...smarrita’ transmitted as anon. lauda in Gall4, w/cc. = ‘Donne gentil’ di gran siam mercatanti’ (‘Canzona de’ granaiuoli’), w/music in BR230 & RC395. Text ed. SingletonCC, 228-9,

note: cc = carnival song, ‘Trionfo della dea Minerva’. Text ed. SingletonCC, 213-14. Music ed. GallucciFFM, 14-15. See also MaceyB, 56-7. M310 & Gall4 list both lauda and cc as ‘Dalla più alta stella’. Lauda attr. to Lorenzo in the cc. sources, but excluded from Toscani’s edition. Cc. text once attr. to Poliziano; CattinNR, 260; CattinRP, 391. PrizerM, 29 suggests a date of ca. 1492 for the carnival song, which celebrates Giovanni de’ Medici’s cardinal’s hat, and very likely his subsequent grand entrance into Florence from Fiesole in March, 1492.

note: Rs424 rubric = ‘lauda di San Vincentio martire et levita per la festa de’ giovani’. Given the association of the latter sections of Rs424 with the Convent of San Marco & Savonarola, this lauda must belong to a group of youth laude associated with the Savonarolan ‘fanciulli’, and with the Company of the Purification in particular; see WilsonHM, 292-7. The model for Lorenzo’s lauda is Divizio’s carnival song, the ‘Trionfo della dea Minerva’, ‘Dalla più alta stella discende a celebrare’, music ed. in GallucciFFM, no. 8; Mancuso, no. 82.