> Dear David, > You are probably right - forget the papal rose line. Though perhaps the > rose reference is some personal link known to those around G at the > time. But perhaps a gilded rose is likely - I'm just cautious about > proceeding from speculation to certainty............ > It does sound, tho', as if the thing had been nicked! > regards > Martyn
Perhaps Martyn was not at all far from the spot. There was a papal golden rose in Ennemond Gaultiers immediate environment. His employers daughter, Henrietta Maria, received a papal golden rose in 1625. She had been Madame Royale as of 1622 (later creating what today is known as the role of Princess Royal in the UK). She was trained, along with her sisters, in riding, dancing, and singing, and took part in French court plays (Wiki), that way most certainly being in the environment of Ennemond Gaultier (or him being in hers, rather) who was employed by her mother, queen Maria de Medici. In 1625, she left her mother and France for her marriage with Charles I. of England. The loss of the golden rose may well be imagined as the mothers loss of her daughter, bearing that rose. That would well match the character of the related allemande grave in F minor by Ennemond Gaultier (Burwell lute tutor, ch. xv). And while were at it, why would a gilded lute rose not allude to that lost Golden Rose? Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
