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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 on September 25 at 6pm, 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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