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New literary evidence of five Italian Ars Nova ballatas has emerged from the Datini fund of the State Archives of Prato. The analysis shows how the ballatas – four set to music by Francesco degli Organi (Landini) and one by Guglielmo di Francia – were transcribed directly from a musical manuscript. Additional investigations on identifying the hand responsible for writing the ballatas will confirm the new witness’s dating to 1396-1397, making this the oldest dated witness of Landini’s work. Further evidence, datable shortly after, comes from a writing exercise preserved in another document within the Datini collection. A hand, probably identifiable with that of the «fanciullo» Piero di Lapo Mazzei, entered nineteen times a portion of theripresaof the ballataFortuna riaset to music by Francesco Landini. |
