Quando la terra parturisse, in verde
madrigal by Bartolino da Padova
Sources
Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 106v-107 (2/2); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 39v-40 (2/?);
London: British Library, Additional 29987,
fol. 13v-14 (2/2), 20v-21 (2/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 20 (2/2).
Facsimiles
1. 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).
2. 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. 169.
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. 66 (Pn6771)., p. 68 (Lbl29987).
3. GOZZI, Marco. [London,
British Library 29987: Transcription and Commentary], 2 vols., dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di paleografica musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.
4. 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. 261.
Literature
1. 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.
2. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars
nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
3. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
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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
Quando la terra parturisse, in verde
per novo tempo, zoveneto fiore,
de fronde coronata che non perde
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questa,in cui viso ardea tal doe fiamelle
che non s'adorna el ciel d'altre
più bell
Translation
When the green earth bears fruit in Spring,
a youthful flower, crowned in evergreens
....................................
This one, in whose face such two lights shone
that the sky is not adorned by more
beautiful ones
Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga
