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''Music for Machiavelli'', a [[Folger Consort]] performance, took place from September 25-27 2019. Perhaps best known as the author of ''The Prince'', Niccolò Machiavelli walked the streets of Florence 500 years ago. He was a true Renaissance man–a philosopher, playwright, diplomat, and a poet. Along with the carnival songs Machiavelli wrote for the Medici family and music for his comedic stage play ''The Mandrake'', [[Folger Consort]] performed works by Francesco Bendusi, Josquin des Prez, Heinrich Isaac, and native composers of Northern Italy.
See [[Music for Machiavelli (2019)]]
 
[[File:MachiavelliConsortBanner.jpg|thumb|right|700px]]<br/>
 
A Collections [[Pop-up exhibitions at the Folger|pop-up exhibition]] in support of the performance was curated by Greg Prickman, the Eric Weinmann Librarian and Director of Collections, and took place prior to the performance along with a discussion by Folger Director [[Michael Witmore]] and Dr. Christopher Celenza, Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, on Machiavelli and his iconic political treatise, ''The Prince''. Following the discussion, Greg Prickman guided attendees through a selection of items from the Folger collections related to Machiavelli, ''The Prince,'' and early sixteenth-century Italy.<br/>
 
==Artists==
 
===Folger Consort===
''Artistic Directors''
* Robert Eisenstein: viol, violin
* Christopher Kendall: lute
 
=== Guest artists ===
* Lawrence Lipnik: viol
* Emily Noël: soprano
* Daniel Meyers: recorder, flute, pipe and tabor, bagpipe, percussion
* Mark Rimple: lute
* Mary Springfels: viol
 
==Folger Consort Program==
Musical settings from Machiavelli’s ''La Mandragola (The Mandrake)'' by Philippe Verdelot: ''Chi non fa prova, Amore ; O dolce notte.''<br/>
 
Anonymous Florentine works from around the year 1500: ''Venus, Juno, Pallas ; Canto de’ diavoli (text by Machiavelli)''<br/>
 
Works by Heinrich Isaac: ''Canto delle dèe (Nè pìu bella di queste)'' ; ''Quis dabit capiti meo quam?'' ; ''Sancte Petre - Ora pro nobis'' ; ''Palle, palle ; Alla battaglia''<br/>
 
Works by Alexander Agricola: ''Pater meus Agricola est'' ; ''Comme femme''<br/>
 
A selection of music from the earliest Italian collection of ensemble dances, Francesco Bendusi’s ''Opera nova de balli,'' printed in 1533.<br/>
 
Individual arrangements of the popular Florentine tune, ''Fortuna desperata'', by Alexander Agricola, Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Martini, and Josquin des Pres<br/>
 
Other works from Renaissance Florence: ''Canto d’amanti disperati e di dame'' by Niccolò Machiavelli; ''Meyor d’este jon ày'' by Bartolomeo degli Organi; ''Canzona de’ naviganti (“Contrar’i venti”)'' by Alessandro Coppini; ''Iesù, sommo conforto'' (text by Girolamo Savonarola) by Paolo Scoto; ''In te, Domine, speravi'' by Josquin des Pres<br/>
 
==Folger Collections Items included in Pop-Up==
1) '''Neville, Henry, 1620-1694'''<br/>
''A true copy of a letter : written by N. Machiavill, in defence of himself, and his religion.''<br/>
London: R. Bentley, 1691<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=155289 154- 772q]<br/>
 
2) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Discorsi''<br/>
Florence: Bernardo di Giunta, 10 November, 1531<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=75491 166- 897q]<br/>
 
3) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Le prince de Nicolas Machiauelle secretaire et citoien de Florence / traduit d’italien en françoys par Guillaume Cappel.''<br/>
Paris: Charles Estienne, 1553<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=89381 234- 368q]<br/>
 
4) '''Unknown'''<br/>
''The atheisticall polititian or A briefe discourse concerning Ni. Machiavell.''<br/>
[London]: [1642]<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=155134 Wing A4109]<br/>
 
5) '''Unknown'''<br/>
''Nicolaus Machiavelus Florentin, supremum per te nacta est prudentia ... [graphic]''<br/>
[S.I.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=259619 Art Vol. a12 no. 58]<br/>
 
6) '''Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529'''<br/>
''Il libro del cortegiano''<br/>
Venice: Aldo Romano and Andrea d’Asola, 1528<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=75418 BJ1604 .C4 1528 Cage]<br/>
 
7) '''Unknown'''<br/>
''[A] caveat for wives to love their husbands or, Pleasant news from hell. : Written in Italian by that grand politician Nicholas Machiavel and now translated into English for a Christmas-gigg.''<br/>
London: 1660<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=148241 Wing M132.5]<br/>
 
8) '''Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536'''<br/>
''Institutio principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis ''<br/>
Basel: Johann Froben, 1516<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=338709 PA8517 .I5 1516 Cage]<br/>
 
9) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Il principe...''<br/>
Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 4 January 1532<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=75461 Bd. w. PQ4627 .M2 H5 1532 Cage]<br/>
 
10) '''Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638'''<br/>
''A treatise of the interest of the princes and states of Christendome''<br/>
London: Ric. Hodgkinsonne, 1641<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=149066 Wing R1868]<br/>
 
11) '''Gentillet, Innocent, ca.1535-ca.1595'''<br/>
''A discourse vpon the meanes of vvel governing and maintaining in good peace, a kingdome, or other principalitie.''<br/>
London: Adam Islip, 1602<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=168865 STC 11743 copy 1]<br/>
 
12) '''James I, King of England, 1566-1625'''<br/>
''Basilikon dōron. Or His Maiesties instructions to his dearest sonne, Henry the prince.''<br/>
London: E. Allde for E. VV[hite] and others of the company of the Stationers, 1603<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=162263 STC 14354 copy 1]<br/>
 
13) '''Willymat, William, -1615'''<br/>
''A princes looking glasse, or A princes direction, very requisite and necessarie for a Christian prince, to view and behold himselfe in...''<br/>
[Cambridge]: John Legat, 1603<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=162283 STC 14357]<br/>
 
14) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Machiavels discourses. upon the first decade of T. Livius translated out of the Italian...''<br/>
London: Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel Pakeman, 1636<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163177 STC 17160 copy 2]<br/>
 
15) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''The arte of warre, written first in Italia[n] by Nicholas Machiauell, and set forthe in Englishe by Peter Whitehorne...''<br/>
[London]: [Printed by John Kingston for] Niclas Inglande, [1562 (April)]<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164121 STC 17164]<br/>
 
16)'''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''[Works. Selections]''<br/>
In Palermo [i.e. London] : Appresso gli heredi d’Antoniello degli Antonielli [i.e. John Wolfe], a xxviij. di Gennaio, 1584.<br>
''Note: Imprint is false; in fact printed in London by John Wolfe (STC).''<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163163 STC 17167]<br/>
 
17)'''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Nicholas Machiavel’s Prince· : Also, the life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca...''<br/>
London: R. Bishop, for Wil: Hils, 1640<br>
Call Numner: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164120 STC 17168 copy 1]<br/>
 
18) '''Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626'''<br/>
''The vncasing of Machiuils instructions to his sonne : vvith the answere to the same.''<br/>
London: [John Beale] for Thomas Bushell, 1613<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=164125 STC 3704.3]<br/>
 
19) ''' Drake, William, Sir'''<br/>
''Notebook of Sir William Drake [manuscript]''<br/>
Late 1630s-to late 1650s<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=221178 V.a.263]<br/>
[https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/w9huqa Selected Images from V.a.263]<br/>
 
20) '''Drummond, David, active 1604-1629'''
''Gratulatio epainetikē [manuscript]''<br/>
1604 May 20<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=244288 V.a.604]<br/>
 
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