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Mostrommi Amor già fra le verdi fronde

madrigal by Francesco Landini

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 124v (2/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 13v-14 (2/2).

Facsimiles

1. NOLTHENIUS, Hélène. 'Een autobiografisch madrigaal van F. Landino', Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, XVII/4 (1955), frontispiece (Fl87).
2. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leonard Ellinwood, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1939, p. 7.
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. 204.
3. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IV, p. 200 (Pn568).

Text Editions

1. CORSI, Giuseppe. Rimatori del Trecento, Turin: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, 1969, p. 1042.
2. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 129.

Literature

1. NOLTHENIUS, Hélène. 'Een autobiografisch madrigaal van F. Landino', Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, XVII/4 (1955): 237-241.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966), pp. 77, 80.
3. 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.
4. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Zum Wort-Ton Problem in der Musik des italienischen Trecento', Festschrift Arnold Geering zum 70. Geburtstag, Bern-Stuttgart: P. Haupt, 1972, p. 58.
5. GALLO, F. Alberto. Il Medioevo, Vol. II, Turin: Edizioni di Torino, 1977. [English translation as Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985], p. 67.
6. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
7. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'A study on text declamation in Francesco Landini's two-part madrigals', Gedenkschrift Gordon Athol Anderson,, Henryville: Institute of Medieval Music, 1984, Vol. I, pp. 119-130.
8. 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. 51.
9. 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.

Text

Mostrommi Amor già fra le verdi fronde
un pellegrin falcon, ch'a l'ombra stava
disciolto in parte e libertà cercava.

Fortuna gli tenea la vista chiusa
contra la quale usava ogni arte e ingegno
sol per drizarsi a l'onorato segno.

Allor conobbi ben che per natura
tendeva di volare in grand'altura