The Musical Chapels at the Florentine Cathedral and Baptistry During the First Half of the 16th Century

Abstract

Some years ago in this journal I traced the development of the musical chapels at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry of San Giovanni in Florence from their inception in 1438 until their suppression, at the time of Savonarola’s rise to power, in 1493. 1 Although my principal objective then was to document musical activities in those churches during one of the most brilliant periods in the city’s history, another was to illustrate the extent to which politics influenced the musical scene in quattrocento Florence. Part of my purpose here is to continue my investigation of both of these themes through the middle of the 16th century. By that time the merchant guilds which had so effectively helped determine the course of musical life in republican Florence were entering their long period of political decline, and the functions of the chapels were becoming more and more subject to the needs and desires of an absolutist ducal regime.

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