Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: I will say to the north: Give them up, and to the South: Do not hold them back Isaiah 43,6 T o many who read this biblical verse on the walls of Santo Spirito in Sassia in late-fifteenth-century Rome, Isaiah's words were personally prophetic.'The journey from north to south, whether to Rome or some other Italian court, was made by innumerable northern job-seekers, pilgrims, and diplomats.But if the attractions of Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were irresistible for many, they only partially explain the persistent migration southward.Ecclesiastical benefices played an important role in luring northern clerics (of whom musicians were but a small minority) to Italy during this period, as is now well understood; 2 however, this lure is not by itself a sufficient explanation for the phenomenon.I wish here to examine this migration from a differ-This study is a much revised and expanded version of my paper "Southern Pull or Northern Push?: Motives for Migration in the Renaissance", published in Atti del XIV Congresso della Societa internazionale di musicologia, Bologna 27 Agosto-1 settembre 1987, Turin, 1990, III, pp.155-161.The revisions began at the Villa I Tatti in 1988-1989 under the auspices of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 1 E. D. HOWE, The Hospital of Santo Spirito and Pope Sixtus IV, New York, 1978, pp.338-342; and B. PULLAN, Orphans and Foundlings in Early Modem Europe, University of Reading, 1989, pp.11-12. 2 Regarding benefices and musicians, see the following and the extensive bibliography cited within: P.
Source: I Tatti Studies
DOI: 10.2307/4603685
Author: Christopher Reynolds
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016163789