Hi Thomas, I have been working on the layout of upcoming Journals for the LSA in recent months and Lorenzino is the topic of all of that work. Right now the 2004 Journal is finished and waiting for the next Quarterly to be ready and they will be mailed together. The 2004 Journal is 1 big article by Mariagrazia Carlone called "The Knights of the Lute" with a lot of details on who had this name and why, tracing details of who they worked for and when. Here is the table of contents: Acknowledgements Foreword I. Biographies I.a Lorenzino Tracetti
I.a.1 Eques Auratus I.a.2 Trejicium vatem I.a.3 Quel giovane, che sona di lauto I.a.4 Lorentzin I.a.5 Dominus Laurentius Traciettus Romanus I.b Other musicians with the name Lorenzino I.b.1 Lorenzino Fiammingo (Lorenzo Zevero) I.b.2 Lorenzino Bolognese (Lorenzo Lodi) I.c Vincenzo Pinti I.c.1 Vincentius Pintus Cives Romanus I.c.2 Nec fidibus quisquam melior I.c.3 Ob fidei candorem ... longe conspicuo I.c.4 Lusitaniae Christi Militiae Eques II.Documents and Literary Texts II.a Sources relating to musicians named Lorenzino II.b Sources relating to Vincenzo Pinti Genealogical Trees Bibliography I really enjoyed this article because it gave a nice picture of what life was like for these lute players: job contract negotiations that rival the negotiations of today's rock stars. My favorite anecdote was the document about a gambling barge on the river Po where one of the Lorenzino candidates was employed. Apparently the villagers along the river were very upset when the barge came to their towns because the idle rich folks ate them out of house and home. The Journal that I am working on now is 2 articles, also about Lorenzino - the musical sources of his music by Mariagrazia and an great article by Paul Beier "Some Observations on the Music of Lorenzino and the Knight of the Lute." This article includes 11 musical examples that really wet my appetite to look at the whole pieces, so we will eventually have those pieces on the LSA web site. In addition Paul has an article in the upcoming Quarterly. It's "Some Remarks on the Seven-Course Lute Music in the Siena Manuscript." These are anonymous pieces that might be by Lorenzino. Nancy I'm wondering about the identity of the Laurencini of Besard's collection. It seems we have at least two viable candidates for the Lorenzino of Thesaurus Harmonicus. If I read Mariagrazia Carlone's work properly, she believes the Knight to be Vincenzo Pinti. However, I just scanned the notes of Marco Pesci's cd devoted to Lorenzino, and he vies for Lorenzino Tracetti. Any general views on this? I just finished a cd of Italian lute music c. 1600, including a handful of tunes by Lorenzino. I don't intend to delve deep in the scholarship on this topic, much less add anything new, but I would like to get some facts straight before I write the CD notes (last task remaining). Thanks much all, Thomas Walker, Jr. -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - [2]www.nancycarlinassociates.com Representing: FROM WALES - Robin Huw Bowen, Crasdant, Neil & Meg Browning's Never Mind the Bocs & Carreg Lafar, FROM ENGLAND - The City Waites, Jez Lowe, & Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, FROM SPAIN - La Musgana and now representing EARLY MUSIC - The Venere Lute Quartet and Paul Beier Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - [3]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 2. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 3. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/