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Godi, Firenze, po' che se' s8 grande
madrigal by Paolo da Firenze

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 56v-57 (3/3).

Facsimiles

GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zur Datierung des Madrigals "Godi, Firenze" und der Handschrift Paris, B.N., fonds it. 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIV/2 (1967): 99-119.

Editions

1. MONTEROSSO, Raffaello. 'Un 'auctoritas' dantesca in un madrigale dell' Ars Nova', Collectanea Historiae Musicae, IV (1966), p. 188.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zur Datierung des Madrigals "Godi, Firenze" und der Handschrift Paris, B.N., fonds it. 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIV/2 (1967): 99-119.
3. Italian Secular Music: Bartolino da Padova, Egidius de Francia, Giulielmus de Francia, Don Paolo da Firenze, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1975. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IX, p. 130.
4. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta and Ursula Günther, Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/VI. [forthcoming]

Text Editions

1. CORSI, Giuseppe. Rimatori del Trecento, Turin: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, 1969, p. 1045.
2. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 269.

Literature

1. WOLF, Johannes. 'Florenz in der Musikgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts', Sammelbände der internationale Musikgesellschaft, III (1901), pp. 615-617.
2. BESSELER, Heinrich. Die Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Potsdam: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1931, pp. 113-114.
3. LI GOTTI, Ettore and Nino PIRROTTA. Il Sacchetti e la tecnica musicale del Trecento italiano, Florence: Sansoni, 1935, p. 53.
4. TAUCCI, Raffaello. 'Fra Andrea dei Servi, organista e compositore del Trecento', Rivista di studi storia sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria, II (1935), p. 85.
5. PIRROTTA, Nino and Ettore LI GOTTI. 'Il Codice di Lucca. III. Il repertorio musicale', Musica Disciplina, V (1951), p. 142.
6. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'The Fourteenth Century in Italy', [chapter 2 of] The New Oxford History of Music. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 31-32.
7. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Die Musik des Trecento', Das Trecento: Italien im 14. Jahrhundert, edited by H. Peyer, Zurich: Artemis, 1961, p. 195.
8. BECHERINI, Bianca. 'Antonio Squarcialupi e il codice mediceo-palatino 87', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento I: Certaldo 1959, 1962, pp. 159, 167, 168.
9. MONTEROSSO, Raffaello. 'Un 'auctoritas' dantesca in un madrigale dell' Ars Nova', Collectanea Historiae Musicae, IV (1966): 185-193.
10. HARRISON, Frank Ll. 'Tradition and innovation in instrumental usage 1100-1450', Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, edited by Jan LaRue, New York: W. W. Norton, 1966, pp. 319-335.
11. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zur Datierung des Madrigals "Godi, Firenze" und der Handschrift Paris, B.N., fonds it. 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIV/2 (1967): 99-119.
12. WESSELY, O. 'Über den Hoquetus in der Musik zu Madrigalen des Trecento', De Ratione in Musica. Festschrift Erich Schenk zum 5. Mai 1972, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1975, pp. 22-23.
13. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64, passim.
14. HALLMARK, Anne. 'Some evidence for French influence in northern Italy, c.1400', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 193-226.
15. 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, pp. 47-49.
16. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Ripetizioni di sillabe e parole nella musica profana italiana del Trecento e del primo Quattrocento', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 93-120.
17. WILLIAMS, Carol. 'Setting the scene for a study of Andrea da Firenze', Miscellanea Musicologica: Adelaide Studies in Musicology, 15 (1988), p. 75.
18. CILIBERTI, Galliano. Prodizione, consumo e diffusione della musica in Italia nel tardo medioevo, Perugia: Centro di Studi Musicali in Umbria, 1989, pp. 18-19.

Text

Godi, Firenze, po' che se' s grande
che batti l'ale per terr'e per mare
faccend'ogni Toscan di te tremare.

Glorioso triunfo di te spande
per tutto l'universo immortal fama.
po' che Pisa tuo serva omai si chiama.

Giove superno e 'l Batista di gloria
danno di Pisa al tuo popol vittoria.

Translation

Rejoice, o Florence, since you are so great
as to spread your wings over land and sea.
striking fear into every Tuscan.

Your glorious triumph broadcasts
over the whole universe your immortal fame.
given that Pisa now calls herself your servant.

God above and St. John the Baptist
give your people a glorious victory over Pisa.

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

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

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