Book contents
- Barbara Strozzi in Context
- Composers in Context
- Barbara Strozzi in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Barbara Strozzi Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part IThe “Exceptional” Woman
- Part IIFamily, Sex, and the Problem of Women in Seicento Venice
- Part IIIGender Ideology and the Venetian Academies
- Part IVContextualizing Strozzi’s Music
- Chapter 16The Religious Landscape of Early Modern Venice
- Chapter 17The Sacred Context for Strozzi’s Opus 5
- Chapter 18Strozzi and the Habsburg Connection
- Chapter 19The French Context for Barbara Strozzi’s “Sul Rodano severo”
- Chapter 20Sketching a Context for the Refrain Structures in Barbara Strozzi’s Opus 1
- Part VPoetry and Music
- Part VIStrozzi and Material Culture
- Part VIIPerforming Strozzi
- Afterword
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 19 - The French Context for Barbara Strozzi’s “Sul Rodano severo”
from Part IV - Contextualizing Strozzi’s Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2026
Book contents
- Barbara Strozzi in Context
- Composers in Context
- Barbara Strozzi in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Barbara Strozzi Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part IThe “Exceptional” Woman
- Part IIFamily, Sex, and the Problem of Women in Seicento Venice
- Part IIIGender Ideology and the Venetian Academies
- Part IVContextualizing Strozzi’s Music
- Chapter 16The Religious Landscape of Early Modern Venice
- Chapter 17The Sacred Context for Strozzi’s Opus 5
- Chapter 18Strozzi and the Habsburg Connection
- Chapter 19The French Context for Barbara Strozzi’s “Sul Rodano severo”
- Chapter 20Sketching a Context for the Refrain Structures in Barbara Strozzi’s Opus 1
- Part VPoetry and Music
- Part VIStrozzi and Material Culture
- Part VIIPerforming Strozzi
- Afterword
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Barbara Strozzi’s musically striking lament on the execution of French courtier and favorite of Louis XIII, Henri Cinq-Mars (1620–1642), Il lamento “(Sul Rodano severo”) (1651 & 1654) paints a musically and textually vivid picture of the young marquis’s demise and his monarch’s remorse. The narrative circulated in muted form in the official French press (Gazette de France) as well as in memoires and letters and in anecdotes and hearsay. Unofficial accounts of the conspiracy and its unraveling turned the two men executed into martyrs. This essay assembles various accounts in circulation and suggests connections between the erudite and literary libertines of France and those of Venice in order to provide context for this lament and the ways in which the anonymous poet (and perhaps Strozzi) might have understood the relationship between Louis XIII and the young and beautiful Cinq-Mars through the different circulations of news between France and Venice.
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- Barbara Strozzi in Context , pp. 198 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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