Alas - I don't have Jacobs book either - too expensive.
Trawling through my own library it seems that Fuenllana was employed as a
músico de cámera by the Portuguese monarch D. Sebastião in 1574, and
therefore he was still alive and active after his service with Isabel de
Valois terminated in 1568.
1578 seems a probable death date but I don't think he can have been born in
1500. 1510 or later seems more likely doesn't it.
MOnica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eloy Cruz" <eloyc...@gmail.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Fuenllana
Dear Monica, List
Charles Jacobs, in his edition of Orphenica Lyra (OUP, 1978), says
something
about Fuenllana's date(s) of death. Apparently there's some problem,
because
certain documents imply an earlier death, but her daughter latter mentions
him as alive at a latter date, or something like that. I don't have this
book at hand, but a soon as I can find it, I'll try to find out what it
really says.
Regards
eloy
Monica Hall 1/2/13 11:40 AM mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
I don't think there is anything in the prologue - they weren't very
worried about things like dates of birth!
I agree - 1520 seems more likely for his birth. I think there might
be
some evidence that he was till alive in 1579. I'm sure I read
something to that effect recently.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: [1]Martyn Hodgson
To: [2]Vihuelalist ; [3]Monica Hall
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Fuenllana
Well, Orphenica Lyra is 1554 and I'd not think he'd be much younger
than around 30 for such a prestigious (and large - ie expensive)
publication.
So I'd put his date of birth around 1520. I suspect the c 1500 - 1579
means that 1500 is a guess but 1579 is evidenced. 1579 also fits with
average adult lifespan of the period of around 60 (ie excluding
children with their extremely high early mortality rate).
Is there nothing in the extensive prologue, dedication, notes which
give some idea of his history?
Martyn
--- On Wed, 2/1/13, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Fuenllana
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 2 January, 2013, 14:33
Does anyone have any dates for Fuenllana. I have just come across
a
source which gives them as c.1500-1579. It seems unlikely to me
that
he would have lived to be 79... Groves gives fl. 1553-1578.
Monica
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