Thanks to Wikipedia ..... apparently
Margarita Salicola (floruit 1682 - 1706) was a famous opera singer of her
time. She came from a family of musicians at the court of the Ferdinando
Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and became a staple of casts at San Giovanni
Grisostomo, Venice's newest and most famous theater, in the 1680s. etc...
Corbetta was employed at the Mantuan Court - so presumably they appeared
together there at some point...
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]>
To: "stephen arndt" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 4:33 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Latin translation
Brilliant. Has anyone heard of a singer called Margarita Salicola?
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "stephen arndt" <[email protected]>
To: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]>; "Lutelist"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Latin translation
How about the following for a literal, if not very elegant, translation?
By his strings that illustrious Italian Corbetto (and) by her voice the
so
famous Bolognese maiden Margharitha Salicola defeated the muses in the
Venetian theaters.
I'm not exactly sure "what defeated the muses" refers to, apart from
excellence in performance. Perhaps it is a reference to the daughters of
Pierus, who challenged the muses in a contest of song and were turned
into
magpies when defeated. (Similar stories are the challenge of Marsyas to
Apollo in flute playing or that of Arachne to Athena in weaving. There
are
others, but I can't think of them right now.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Monica Hall
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 10:02 AM
To: Lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] Latin translation
I wonder if there is any Latin scholar on this list who could translate
the
following brief reference to Corbetta...
Fidibus illustris ille Corbetto Italus
Voce Margharitha Salicola virgo Boniensis
Venetis tam famosa theatris vicere musas.
Monica
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