On the Presentation and Interpretation of Evidence: Another Review of Costanzo Festa's Biography

Constructing Identities in a Music Manuscript: The Medici Codex as a Gift*

“… 1 On the Medici Codex, properly Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, MS Acquisti e Doni 666, see Lowinsky, 1957, 1968, 1977, and 1979; Perkins, 1969b; Sparks, 1972 and 1973; Rifkin, 1973 and 1977; Crawford; Finscher; Lockwood, 1979, 241–46; Staehelin; Dean, 1984, 110–29; Sherr, 1985. For convenience, a list of the manuscript's contents is given in the Appendix below, pp.…”

“… 65 The composers who worked for Leo X are Andreas de Silva (Lowinsky, 1968, 3:39, 53, 61, 65–66, 76, 79–80, 104–06, 114–15, 123, 141–42, 167, 170–71, 175–76, 205–13, 217–19, 232; Sherr, 1987), Bruhier (Lockwood, 1979), Jacotin (Nugent), Costanzo Festa (Lowinsky, 1968, 3:28, 39, 41–43, 46, 52–54, 59, 61–63, 66, 78, 80, 114–15, 118, 120, 123, 135–41, 167, 228–29, 231–32; Crawford; Lowinsky, 1977), La Fage (Lockwood, 1979, esp. 222–24), and possibly Lhéritier (Perkins, 1969a).…”