Jennings - Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song

SENZA VESTIMENTA: THE LITERARY TRADITION OF TRECENTO SONG

Music and Material Culture Series

Music and Material Culture provides a new platform for methodological innovations in research on the relationship between music and its objects. In a sense, musicology has always dealt with material culture; the study of manuscripts, print sources, instruments and other physical media associated with the production and reception of music is central to its understanding. Recent scholarship within the humanities has increasingly shifted its focus onto the objects themselves and there is now a particular need for musicology to be part of this broader material turn. A growing reliance on digital and online media as sources for the creation and consumption of music is changing the way we experience music by increasingly divorcing it from tangible matter. This is rejuvenating discussion of our relationship with musics objects and the importance of such objects both as a means of understanding past cultures and negotiating current needs and social practices. Broadly interdisciplinary in nature, this series seeks to examine critically the materiality of music and its artefacts as an explicit part of culture rather than simply an accepted means of music-making.

Lauren McGuire Jennings

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

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Jennings, Lauren McGuire.

Senza vestimenta : the literary tradition of trecento song / by Lauren McGuire Jennings.

pages cm. (Music and material culture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-1888-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Songs, ItalianItaly5001400History and criticism. 2. Songs, ItalianItaly5001400TextsHistory and criticism. 3. MusicSocial aspectsItalyHistoryTo 1500. I. Title.

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A project of this scope is never solely the work of one person, and it is with great pleasure that I thank those who helped it take shape, from the early stages of doctoral dissertation to completed book. First and foremost, I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Emma Dillon, whose guidance and encouragement has been invaluable from day one of my graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania. Her seminars sparked my interest in the study of manuscripts as material objects and were the starting point for this project, and her comments on many drafts of both the book and the dissertation have pushed me to investigate questions I might otherwise have left aside. The rest of my doctoral committee, Emily Dolan, Kevin Brownlee, and Fabio Finotti, deserve recognition and many thanks as well, for their insightful feedback was also instrumental in helping this project grow and progress from dissertation to book.

I thank Adam Gilbert, Blake Wilson, Anna Zayaruznaya, and the two anonymous reviewers for generously reading and commenting on various chapters of the book. Special thanks are due to Michael Cuthbert not only for his feedback on and on earlier stages of this project but also for his willingness over the years to share digital resources. I am especially grateful to Sara Prentice Manela for her thoughtful and attentive editing of the book in its entirety, which has led to a number of significant improvements and refinements. I also wish to express my gratitude to the numerous scholars in Italy who helped me in a variety of ways during my two years conducting research in Florence. I owe the greatest thanks to Maria Sofia Lannutti and Stefano Zamponi, who were, and continue to be, extraordinarily generous in lending their time and sharing their expertise. Additionally, I thank Emanuele Senici, Alessio Decaria, Lino Leonardi, Michaelangiola Marchiaro, and Maria Caraci Vela. Correspondence and conversations with other scholars around the world have impacted this project in a number of ways as well. In particular, I thank Elena Abramov-van Rijk, Eleonora Beck, Jason Stoessel, John Ndas, Agostino Ziino, and the Portland Medieval Consortium for their thoughtful comments and kind assistance.

This project could not have come to fruition without the financial support of several institutions. I thank the University of Southern Californias Office of the Provost and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Critical Bibliography through the Rare Book School for financial and intellectual support in the projects final stages. The direct consultation of primary sources was essential to this book, and I am indebted to the USItaly Fulbright Commission, the Medieval Academy of America, and the University of Pennsylvania for making it possible to live and travel in Europe. The publication of this book was also supported by a grant from the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.