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O in Italia felice Luguria
madrigal by Jacopo da Bologna

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 17v-18 (2/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 64 (2/2); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 47;
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 6v (2/2).

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

Editions

1. The Music of Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Berkeley: University of California, 1954. University of California Publications in Music 5, p. 76 (Pn6771).
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. 37.
3. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1963. Corpus Mensurablis Musicae 8/IV, p. 19.
4. 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. 126 (Fn26).

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 41.

Literature

1. WOLF, Johannes. 'Florenz in der Musikgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts', Sammelbände der internationale Musikgesellschaft, III (1901), p. 610.
2. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Note ad "Anna" o dei dispetti amorosi', Accademia: Rivista italiana di lettere, arti, scienze (Palermo), I/2 (1945), p. 7.
3. AGENO, Franca. 'Rime estravaganti del Sacchetti', Lettere italiane, XIII (1961), pp. 8-9.
4. BECHERINI, Bianca. 'L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento. Strumenti ed espressione musicale', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento I: Certaldo 1959, 1962, p. 49.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. PETROBELLI, Pierluigi. '"Un leggiadretto velo" ed altre cose petrarchesche', Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, X (1975), p. 37.
8. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
9. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 47-48, 56.
10. CILIBERTI, Galliano. Prodizione, consumo e diffusione della musica in Italia nel tardo medioevo, Perugia: Centro di Studi Musicali in Umbria, 1989, p. 19.
11. 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.

Recordings

1. Jacopo da Bologna: Italienische Madrigale des 14. Jahrhunderts, P.A.N. Ensemble Project Ars Nova (1985): Harmonia Mundi HM 738A.
2. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Ensemble of the Fourteenth Century, directed by John Griffiths and John Stinson (1987): Move MC 3091.

Text

O in Italia felice Liguria.
e proprio tu, Milan, Dio lauda e gloria
de' dui nati segnor, che 'l ciel t'aguria.

Segno fo ben, che fo di gran vittoria.
ch'un'aquila li trasse a cristianesmo
e Parma a lor don= da po' el batesmo.

Un venere tra sesta [e] terza nacquero
Luca e Zuane a chi lor nome piaquero.

Quaranta sei un emme cum tri ci
corea e fo d'agosto al quarto d8.

Translation

O in Italy, happy Liguria!
and especially you, Milan, praise and glory be to God
for your two new-born lords whom Heaven presages.

It was a sign of great victory
that an eagle should lead them to Christianity
and afterwards Parma gave them the baptism.

Born on a Friday between mid-morning and noon.
their well-found names were Luke and John.

It was 1346 (forty-six, an M with three C's)
at the time and the fourth day of August.
Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

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

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