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Francesco Landini

Francesco Landini Composer

Abbonda di virtù, S.90 (ballata a2)

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  • Abbonda di virtù, S.90 (ballata a2)
    Genre: Other Secular Polyphony
    Pr. Instrument: Voice

Abbonda di virtù is a polyphonic work by the fourteenth-century Italian composer Francesco Landini (c. 1325-1397). It is an example of the Italian dance-form known as the ballata and is written for two voices, a tenor and a cantus, both of which sing the same text. This is the Italianate manner of text-setting; this and the fact that the work is in the more archaic two-voice polyphonic style lead to its tentative dating in the earlier period of Landini's work. Abbonda di virtù is catalogued as No. 76.

Abbonda di virtù chi è sança vicio Serva d'amor con fè sanç'altro indicio

Amor non pregia força nè richeçça Nè gente di naçion nè d'alto stato

Vuol senno con virtù et gentileça Di cuore et sie cortese et insegnato

Cui d'onestà quel sir vedra dotato Per servo lui terra nel suo ospiçio

Abbonda di virtù chi è sança vicio Serva d'amor con fè sanç'altro indicio

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