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Non al su' amante pi· Diana piaque
madrigal by Jacopo da Bologna

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 10v-11 (2/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 71 (2/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 4v-5 (2/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 3v (2/2);
Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, latino 3195, fol. 11v (text).

Facsimiles

1. R. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze. Mostra bibliografica di musica italiana dalle origini alla fine del secolo XVIII, Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1937, p. 19 (incomplete).
2. Città di Firenze. Accademia nazionale "Luigi Cherubini" di musica, lettere e arti figurative. Esposizione nazionale dei conservatori musicali e delle biblioteche. Palazzo Davanzati 27 ottobre 1949 - 8 gennaio 1950, Florence: G. Barbèra, 1950, p. 80 (Fn26).
3. OSTHOFF, Wolfgang. 'Petrarca in der Musik des Abendlandes', Castrum Peregrini, XX (1954), (Pn6771).
4. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 132 (FP).
5. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. Città di Firenze. Accademia nazionale "Luigi Cherubini" di musica, lettere e arti figurative. Esposizione nazionale dei conservatori musicali e delle biblioteche. Palazzo Davanzati 27 ottobre 1949 - 8 gennaio 1950, Florence: G. Barbèra, 1950, p. 80 (incomplete).
2. OSTHOFF, Wolfgang. 'Petrarca in der Musik des Abendlandes', Castrum Peregrini, XX (1954), p. 15 (Pn6771).
3. The Music of Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Berkeley: University of California, 1954. University of California Publications in Music 5, p. 69 (Pn568).
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. 23.
5. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1963. Corpus Mensurablis Musicae 8/IV, p. 15.
6. Historical Anthology of Music. Vol. I. Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Music, edited by Archibald T. Davison and Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966, no. 49 (Pn6771).
7. Italian Secular Music by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze and Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1967. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VI, p. 114 (Fn26).
8. Keyboard Music of the Late Middle Ages in the Codex Faenza 117, edited by D. Plamenac, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1972. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 57, p. 94 (Fn26).
9. Musikgeschichte in Beispielen von der Antike bis Johann Sebastian Bach, edited by Otto Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1976, p. 25.
10. FULLER, Sarah. The European Musical Heritage 800-1750, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Literature

1. LUDWIG, F. 'Die geistliche nichtliturgische, weltliche einstimmige und die mehrstimmige Musik des Mittelalters bis zum Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts', Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, edited by G. Adler, vol. I, Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlag, 1924, p. 282.
2. R. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze. Mostra bibliografica di musica italiana dalle origini alla fine del secolo XVIII, Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1937.
3. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940, p. 13, ex. 8.
4. LI GOTTI, Ettore. La poesia musicale italiana del secolo XIV, Palermo: Palumbo, 1944, p. 30.
5. Città di Firenze. Accademia nazionale "Luigi Cherubini" di musica, lettere e arti figurative. Esposizione nazionale dei conservatori musicali e delle biblioteche. Palazzo Davanzati 27 ottobre 1949 - 8 gennaio 1950, Florence: G. Barbèra, 1950.
6. OSTHOFF, Wolfgang. 'Petrarca in der Musik des Abendlandes', Castrum Peregrini, XX (1954), pp. 16-17.
7. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Madrigali e ballate inedite del Trecento', Belfagor, XIV (1959), p. 330.
8. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Madrigali inediti del Trecento', Belfagor, XIV (1959), p. 75.
9. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim.
10. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The Middle Ages', [in] A History of Song, edited by Denis Stevens, 2nd edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, p. 56.
11. THIBAULT, Geneviève. 'Emblèmes et devises des Visconti dans les oeuvres musicales du Trecento', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, p. 136.
12. VECCHI, Giuseppe. 'Letteratura e musica nel Trecento', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo, 1969, 1970, p. 493.
13. PETROBELLI, Pierluigi. '"Un leggiadretto velo" ed altre cose petrarchesche', Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, X (1975), pp. 32-35.
14. GALLO, F. A. 'Antonio da Ferrara, Lancillotto Anguissola e il madrigale trecentesco', Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale, XII (1976), p. 44.
15. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
16. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 56.
17. FALLOWS, David. 'Specific information on the ensembles for composed polyphony, 1400-1474', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1983, pp. 140-141.
18. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Sprache und Musik im italienischen Trecento: Zur Frage einer Frührenaissance', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter: 1984, p. 40.
19. 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.
20. CILIBERTI, Galliano. Prodizione, consumo e diffusione della musica in Italia nel tardo medioevo, Perugia: Centro di Studi Musicali in Umbria, 1989, pp. 19, 38-39.

Recordings

1. Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Vol. I. 13th - 15th Centuries, Syntagma Musicum Ensemble, directed by Kees Otten: 2-HMV HQS 1195/6.
2. Musik aus dem Trecento, Silvia and Walter Frei: Fono. Ges. Luzern S 30-4703.
3. Storia della Musica Italiana. Record 2: Ars Nova, various performing groups: RAC Victor LM 40 000-2.
4. Monuments of the Ars Nova, vol. 1, J. Archimbaud (Tr), R. Bonté (T), A. Lafosse (bass-trumpet), directed by Guillaume de Van (1938?): Oiseau-Lyre OL 1 (78rpm, 12'').
5. Historical Anthology of Music in Performance. Vol. 1: Late Medieval Music (1300 - 1400), University of Chicago Collegium Musicum, South Illinois Univ, directed by Howard Mayer Brown, Wesley Morgan (1968?): Pleiades P 250.
6. The Seraphim Guide to Renaissance Music, Syntagma Musicum of Amsterdam, directed by Kees Otten (1969): Seraphim SIC-6052 (set 3) (USA).
7. Musik des Trecento um Jacopo da Bologna, Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich, directed by Michel Piguet (1973): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-111 (GER)/ 1C163-30-107/12 (GER).
8. Music au temps des Papes en Avignon, Florilegium Musicum de Paris, directed by Jean-Claude Malgoire (1973): CBS Masterworks 76534.
9. Jacopo da Bologna: Italienische Madrigale des 14. Jahrhunderts, P.A.N. Ensemble Project Ars Nova (1985): Harmonia Mundi HM 738A.
10. Il Solazzo: music for a medieval banquet, Judith Malafronte, mezzo-soprano, and Kevin Mason, lute, The Newberry Consort (1990): Harmonia Mundi 907038.

Text

Non al su' amante pi· Diana piacque
quando per tal ventura tutta nuda
la vidi mezo de le gelid' acque

ch'a me la pasturell' alpestra e cruda
post' a bangnar el suo candido velo
ch'al sol e l'aura il vago chapel chiuda.

Tal che mi fece quand' egli arde 'l cielo
tutto tremar d'un amoroso zelo.

Translation

Diana's lover, when he saw her
by chance completely naked
in the middle of an icy stream.

did not like her more than I liked
the simple mountain shepherdess.
intent on wetting her candid veil
with which she encloses her beautiful hair in the sun and the wind.

So that she made me all tremble.
under the blazing sky, with amorous shivers.

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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