Fra Serafino Razzi (

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1531 –

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1613), was an Italian Dominican friar who in 1563 published a large collection of carnival songs in the

lauda (song) The ''lauda'' (Italian pl. ''laude'') or ''lauda spirituale'' was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval music, medieval era and Renaissance music, Renaissance. ''Laude'' remained popular into the ninetee ...

genre. Razzi's collection ''Libro primo delle laudi spirituale'' is a miscellany of pieces of varying age and character from the music of Florence. It contains 91 lauda settings for one to four voices. Razzi travelled widely and kept diaries of his journeys.Termoli – Page 418 Felice Costantino "La testimonianza di Serafino Razzi. Il domenicano Serafino Razzi viaggiò, tra il 1576 e il 1577, in Abruzzo e in Capitanata «con cavallo, garzone e compagno»; il 17 febbraio 1577 partì da Vasto per giungere, dopo «XVIII miglia piacevoli ..." Razzi's sister was the sculptor and nun Maria Angelica Razzi.

Works

* ''Istoria de gli huomini'' 1596 * ''Giardino d'essempi, ouero Fiori delle vite de' Santi'' 1599 * ''La storia di Raugia'' 1595 * ''La vita et institutioni del Giovan. Taulero'' (

Johannes Tauler Johannes Tauler OP ( – 16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Roman Catholic priest and a theologian. A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland mystics. He prom ...

) 1590 * ''Vite dei santi, e beati cosi uomini, come donne del sacro ordine'' 1577

References

External links

Guide to Razzi, Serafino, Costumi e morte di Papa Alexxandro VI contrario Al P. F : Girolamo Savonarola da Ferrara del ordine de Predicatori. Manuscript, circa 1675
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1531 births 1613 deaths People from Marradi Italian Dominicans 16th-century Italian composers Italian male composers 16th-century Italian musicians {{Italy-composer-stub