ANGELICA BILTÀ: OUR MAN LANDINI

Daaaaw

If Hildegard von Bingen's the Woman, Francesco Landini's the Man. At least among awesome 13th century composers. Anonymous 4's The Second Circle: Love Songs of Francesco Landini is absospiffinlutely luvverly.

And the NPR website just informed me that the Anonymous 4 group will be retiring this year. And there was much weeping and gnash-gnash-gnashing

Title text is taken from Landini's ballata for 2 voices, S. 54 Angelica biltà venut' è in terra. And here's the text:

Angelica biltà venut' è in terra. 

Dunque ciascun c'ama veder belezza, 

virtù, atti vezosi e legiadria,

vengha veder costei che sol vagheza, 

arà die lei si com' l'anima mia. 

Ma non credo con pace tanta guerra. 

Angelica biltà.

To be perfectly honest I'm not totally sure what the "ma non credo con pace tanta guerra" refers to.