Abstract: In his recent translation of the letters of Michelangelo, E. H. Ramsden devotes some space to a discussion of three letters to Luigi del Riccio, the artist's friend and banker at Rome, letters primarily concerned with the setting to music, evidently by Jacques Arcadelt, of one of his poems. The first letter (no. 215: II, 16-17) is somewhat enigmatic in its wording, but the evident meaning is that Del Riccio is to find someone to compose a musical setting of an enclosed poem. The second and third letters (nos. 216 and 217: II, 17-18) indicate that Del Riccio gave this commission to Arcadelt and that the resultant madrigal was sufficiently pleasing to Michelangelo and to others within Michelangelo's artistic circle to move him to reward the composer with a gift of money or of satin or silks. None of the three letters is dated, but Ramsden, on the basis of internal evidence, suggests May or June 1542 for all three.
Publication Year: 1965
Publication Date: 1965-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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