I got my copy of this message June 22, 2013! Wayne
Begin forwarded message: > From: Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: The "golden" rose > Date: May 4, 2014 at 8:35:52 AM EDT > To: Mathias Rösel <[email protected]>, Lute List > <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> > > It's almost 12 months since I sent this mail- is this a record delay on > Wayne's list! > Martyn > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
