Constructing Identities in a Music Manuscript: The Medici Codex as a Gift

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 84 - 127
• Main Author: Shephard, Tim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The Renaissance Society of America 01.03.2010; Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Celebrations; de la Tour d Auvergne, Madeleine (Duchess of Urbino) (1495-1519); de Medici, Lorenzo II (Duke of Urbino) (1492-1519); Diplomacy; Manuscript studies; Marriage; Motets; Nobility; Popes; Portraits; Renaissance music; Studies; Weddings

The motet manuscript known as the Medici Codex is associated by modern scholarship with the 1518 marriage of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. It was once thought that the manuscript was made in France and given to Lorenzo by Francis I, but now it is almost unanimo...