It's almost 12 months since I sent this mail- is this a record delay on
Wayne's list!
Martyn
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From: Mathias RAP:sel <[email protected]>
To: Lute List <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2014, 13:27
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The "golden" rose
> Dear David,
> You are probably right - forget the papal rose line. Though perhaps
the
> rose reference is some personal link known to those around G at the
> time. But perhaps a gilded rose is likely - I'm just cautious about
> proceeding from speculation to certainty............
> It does sound, tho', as if the thing had been nicked!
> regards
> Martyn
Perhaps Martyn was not at all far from the spot. There was a papal
golden
rose in Ennemond Gaultier's immediate environment. His employer's
daughter,
Henrietta Maria, received a papal golden rose in 1625. She had been
Madame
Royale as of 1622 (later creating what today is known as the role of
Princess Royal in the UK). She "was trained, along with her sisters, in
riding, dancing, and singing, and took part in French court plays"
(Wiki),
that way most certainly being in the environment of Ennemond Gaultier
(or
him being in hers, rather) who was employed by her mother, queen Maria
de'
Medici. In 1625, she left her mother and France for her marriage with
Charles I. of England. The loss of the golden rose may well be imagined
as
the mother's loss of her daughter, bearing that rose. That would well
match
the character of the related allemande grave in F minor by Ennemond
Gaultier
(Burwell lute tutor, ch. xv). And while we're at it, why would a gilded
lute
rose not allude to that lost Golden Rose?
Mathias
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