Per un verde boschetto
ballata by Bartolino da Padova
Sources
Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 120v (3/3); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 66 (2/2); Biblioteca Riccardiana 2735, fol. 61 (text fragment);
London: British Library, Additional 29987, fol. 80v-81 (3/3);
Lucca: Archivio di Stato 184 (Mancini Codex), fol. 26v (2/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 39v-40 (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq.
français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 23v (3/3).
Facsimiles
1. PARRISH, Carl. The Notation of Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1957, plate LV (Pn6771).
2. The Manuscript London, British Museum Add. 29987, facsimile edition by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology,
1965. Musicological Studies and Documents 13, (Lo).
3. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 122 (FP).
4. The Lucca Codex. Codice Mancini. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition, edited by John N das and Agostino Ziino, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana editrice, 1990.
5. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca:
Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.
Editions
1. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 194.
2. 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. 56 (Fn26)., p. 58 (Pn568).
3. WILLIAMS, Carol J. The
Mancini Codex: A Manuscript Study, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Adelaide), 3 vols., 1983, Vol. II, p. 14.
4. GOZZI, Marco. [London, British Library 29987: Transcription and Commentary], 2 vols., dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di
paleografica musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.
5. GARFORTH, Constance C. The Lo Manuscript: A Trecento Collection, Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University: 1983.
Text Editions
CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 254.
Literature
1. D'ANCONA, Alessandro. La poesia popolare italiana, 2nd edition, Livorno: R. Giusti, 1907.
2. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Madrigali e ballate inedite del Trecento', Belfagor, XIV (1959), J0060.
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manoscritti della Biblioteca Capitolare di Ivrea, rev. ed. 1967.
4. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, pp. 482-483.
5. BROWN, Howard M. 'The Trecento harp', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval
Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 56.
Recordings
1. Italian Secular Music of the Trecento, Hortus Musicus, directed by Andres Moustonen: Chant du Monde LDX 78.665 (FRA).
2. Songs and Dances of 14th Century Italy, Landini Consort, Richard Hill (C-T), Rogers Covey-Crump (T): University
of East Anglia UEA 78001 (GB).
Text
Per un verde boschetto
seguito l'orma d'un zentil brachetto.
Con voce quasi umana
- Seguita me -, latrando e' par che dica:
ond'io con mente sana
de seguitarlo n'ho preso fatica,
sperando che la plica
me sciolga di
quel nodo così stretto
Translation
I follow through a green grove
the traces of an elegant retriever.
With almost human voice,
"Follow me", its yelp seems to be saying.
So that, with a clear mind,
I've taken pains to go after it,
hoping that it may
undo
the tight knot that constrains me.Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga