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Staffarda Abbey (''Abbazia Santa Maria di Staffarda'') is a
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Staffarda Abbey (''Abbazia Santa Maria di Staffarda'') is a Cistercian
The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...
monastery located near Saluzzo
Saluzzo (; pms, Salusse ) is a town and former principality in the province of Cuneo, in the Piedmont region, Italy.
The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are fo ...
in north-west Italy; it was founded as a daughter house of Tiglieto Abbey
Tiglieto Abbey (''Badia di Tiglieto'', also known as ''Santa Maria alla Croce de Civitacula'') is a monastery in Tiglieto, Liguria, northern Italy. It was the first Cistercian abbey to be founded in Italy, and also the first outside France.
The ...
in 1135 by Manfred I, Marquis of Saluzzo. The abbey became an important local centre for agriculture and held a flourishing market. It was placed ''in commendam
In canon law, commendam (or ''in commendam'') was a form of transferring an ecclesiastical benefice ''in trust'' to the ''custody'' of a patron. The phrase ''in commendam'' was originally applied to the provisional occupation of an ecclesiastical ...
'' to the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( it, Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the wo ...
in 1750.
A portrait of Cesare Alessandro Scaglia di Verrua, abbot of Staffarda, painted by Antony van Dyck in about 1634, is now in the National Gallery in London.
An important musical manuscript, the Codex Staffarda, dating to the 1480s or 1490s and containing reference to the commandatory abbot Brixianus Taparelli, is now in the National University Library of Turin.Cristina Santarelli Essay Il manoscritto musicale dell'abbazia di Staffarda. in Studi piemontesi - Volume 27 - Page 509 Centro studi piemontesi - 1998 "Conservato presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino sotto la segnatura Ris. Mus. I, 27, il cosiddetto Codice di Staffarda si colloca fra le più importanti testimonianze della vita musicale pedemontana. Le vicende del codice, redatto nel XVI secolo ..." reprinted in Rinaldo Comba, Grado G. Merlo ''L'Abbazia di Staffarda e l'irradiazione cistercense nel Piemonte '' Page 339 1999 It includes polyphonic works by Renaissance composers such as Jacob Obrecht
Jacob Obrecht (also Hobrecht; 1457/8
and Antoine Brumel
Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one of the most influential composers of his gene ...
, as well as the earliest surviving example of a polyphonic Dies Irae by an otherwise unknown composer, Engarandus Juvenis Engarandus Juvenis, "Enguerrand the Younger" ( fl. 1480s-90s) is a composer, presumed to be of French origin, whose three known works are all preserved in a single codex – the Codice di Staffarda – in the Cistercian monastery of Staffarda, It ...
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References
*http://www.piemontefeel.org/EN/Page/t01/view_html?idp=43 *https://archive.today/20030311025010/http://www.mauriziano.it/arte/monumenti/staffard/storia.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20070503182652/http://www.piemonte-emozioni.it/cultura/eng/edifici_religiosi/edifici_culto/staffarda.shtml *https://web.archive.org/web/20060511175517/http://www.ingranda.it/castelli/pagine/Staffarda.asp *https://web.archive.org/web/20070928181327/http://www.comune.revello.cn.it/staffarda.htm?a5 *https://web.archive.org/web/20110718084550/http://www.cistercensi.info/abbazie/abbazie.asp?ab=1081&lin=enExternal links
www.cistercensi.info: Photographs of the abbey complex
* http://www.freewebs.com/pinocarita/staffardaabbey.htm Monasteries in Piedmont 1135 establishments in Europe 12th-century establishments in Italy Religious organizations established in the 1130s Cistercian monasteries in Italy Christian monasteries established in the 12th century {{Piedmont-geo-stub