Josquin Desprez and His Milanese Patrons

Abstract

SPrevious studies of music in Milan in the 1470s include Giulio Porro, Lettere di Galeazzo Sforza Duca di Archivio storico lombardo (1878), 10o7-29, 254-74, 637-68; Emilio Motta, Musicisti alla corte degli Archivio storico lombardo XIV (1887), 29-64, 278-340, and 514-61 (rpt. Geneva, 1977); Claudio Sartori, des PrOs Cantore del Duomo di Milano (1459-72), Annales musicologiques IV (1956), 55-83; Gaetano Cesari, e musicisti alla corte sforzesca, in Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, ed., corte di Ludovico il Moro IV (Milan, 1923), 183-254; Guglielmo Barblan, Vita musicale alla corte sforzesca, in Storia di Milano IX (Milan, 1961), 183-254; Claudio Sartori, La musica nel Duomo dalle origini a Franchino Gaffurio, in ibid., 723-48; Helmuth Osthoff, Josquin Desprez (Tutzing, 1962-65), 2 vols.; Edward E. Lowinsky, des Prez and Congresso Internazionale sul Duomo di Milano, Atti, ed. Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, 2 vols. (Milan, 1969); Edward E. Lowinsky, Ascanio Sforza's life: a key to Josquin's biography and an aid to the chronology of his works, in Josquin des Prez: Proceedings, 1971, ed. Lowinsky and Bonnie Blackburn (Oxford, 1976); and William F. Prizer, Music at the Court of the Sforza: The Birth and Death of a Musical Center, Musica Disciplina XLIII (1989), 141-93. The authors of this article have increased the amount of documentary evidence significantly since the publication of these works. For other valuable historical studies, see Peter Burke, The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy (Princeton, 1986); Michele Ansani, La provvista dei benefici (1450-1466): Strumenti e limiti dell'intervento ducale, in Giorgio Chittolini, ed., Gli Sforza, la Chiesa lombarda, la corte di Roma (Napoli, 1989), 1-113; and Gregory Lubkin, A Renaissance Court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria Sforza (Berkeley, 1994). 2 Milan, Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, Liber beretinus, dati et recepti, Registro 250, years 1459-62, f. 39, entry dated 7 August 1459, and a corroborative entry in the Liber mandatorum, Registro 6o9, f. 48, also dated 7 August 1459, published in Claudio Sartori, des PrOs Cantore del Duomo di Milano (145972), Annales musicologiques IV (1956), 57. See Sartori, pp. 59-63 for a summary of payments made to Iuschinus. The singer was to be paid from the beginning of July, 1459.

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