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Per seguir la speranta che m'ancide
ballata by Francesco Landini

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 166 (3/3); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiano VII 1041, fol. 48 (text); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 21v (3/3);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 62v-63 (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 48 (3/3).

Facsimiles

1. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 40 (FP).
2. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'Francesco Landini and his music', Musical Quarterly, XXII (1936), p. 215.
2. Three Centuries of Choral Music, Renaiassance to Baroque. I. French-Netherland Music. 2. Italian Music, edited by Lehman Engel, New York: Harold Flammer, 1939, p. 5.
3. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leonard Ellinwood, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1939, p. 271.
4. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 302.
5. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IV, p. 112.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 209.

Literature

1. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'Francesco Landini and his music', Musical Quarterly, XXII (1936), pp. 199, 204.
2. GALLO, F. Alberto. 'The musical and literary tradition of 14th century poetry set to music', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter: 1984, pp. 55-76.

Recordings

1. [Landini], Hortus Musicus, directed by Andres Moustonen: Chant du Monde LDX 78.666 (FRA).
2. A Song for Francesca. Music in Italy, 1330-1430, Gothic Voices, Andrew Lawrence-King (medieval harp), directed by Christopher Page (1987): Hyperion CDA 66286.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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