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Sovra la riva d'un corrente fiume
madrigal by Lorenzo da Firenze with text by Franco Sacchetti

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana XC 37, fol. 100v (text); Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 574, fol. 4 (text); Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 48v-49 (2/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Palatino 204, fol. 137v (text); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 75v-76 (2/2); Biblioteca Riccardiana 1118, fol. 103 (text);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 24v-25 (2/2);
Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigiano L.VIII.300, p. . 11 (text); Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigiano M.VII.142, fol. 71 (text); Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, latino 3213, fol. 316 (text).

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. 138 (FP).
2. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. LI GOTTI, Ettore and Nino PIRROTTA. Il Sacchetti e la tecnica musicale del Trecento italiano, Florence: Sansoni, 1935, no. 1.
2. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 81.
3. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1962. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/III, p. 14.
4. Italian Secular Music by Vincenzo da Rimini, Rosso de Chollegrana, Donato da Firenze, Gherardello da Firenze, Lorenzo da Firenze, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1971. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VII, p. 165 (Fn26).

Text Editions

Sacchetti, Franco. Il libro delle rime, edited by A. Chiari, Bari: Laterza, 1936.

Literature

1. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940, p. 6.
2. 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.
3. GALLO F. Alberto. 'Lorenzo Masini e Francesco degli Organi in S. Lorenzo', Studi Musicali, IV (1975), p. 58.
4. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
5. 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.
6. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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