Dear Arthur, a few years ago I collected the information concerning this winter passage over the alps from the travel diary of Camerarius, put it together with another guy's findings on Melchior Newsidler's life and had it published in the quarterly of the German lute society. I tried to locate a manuscript of the travel diary which once was in the library or archive of the Reformed church in Erlangen, but neither the present day Reformed community nor the Theological Seminary of the Erlangen University (where the manuscript was temporarily moved to) know of any such source any more …
All best Joachim -----Original-Nachricht----- Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Melchior Newsidler's portrait, again Datum: 2019-11-12T03:45:38+0100 Von: "Arthur Ness" <[email protected]> An: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Reportedly he and his companion traveled over the Alps to Innsbruck during a blizzard. He was with Philippe Camerarius, an associate of Martin Luther who had recently been freed from being imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition. They traveled through Siena where they stayed at the Inn of the Mermaid (or Siren, a symbol associated with Siena; the Siena Lute Book has a watermark representing a siren). Here's another engraving of MN aged 43: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-d59b-a3d9-e040-e00a1 8064a99 Arthur -----Original Message----- From: Joachim L����dtke <[email protected]> To: David Van Edwards <[email protected]> Cc: Tristan von Neumann <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Nov 11, 2019 8:59 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Melchior Newsidler's portrait, again At 12:48 +0100 11/11/19, Joachim L����dtke wrote: Well, in winter 1565, while his lute books were set and printed in Venice, Melchior together with some fellow Germans went over the Alps, in deep snow and at freezing temperature. Some piece of hard-frozen snow or ice may have hit him during the passage �� ;) Joachim dler's portrait, again Datum: 2019-11-11T12:02:50+0100 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
