Serafino Razzi

Fra Serafino Razzi (Marradi 1531 – Florence 1613), was an Italian Dominican friar who in 1563 published a large collection of carnival songs in the lauda (song) genre.[1] Razzi's collection Libro primo delle laudi spirituale is a miscellany of pieces of varying age and character from the music of Florence.[2] It contains 91 lauda settings for one to four voices. Razzi travelled widely and kept diaries of his journeys.[3]

Razzi's sister was the sculptor and nun Maria Angelica Razzi.

Works
  • Vite dei santi, e beati cosi uomini, come donne del sacro ordine (in Italian). Florence: Bartolomeo Sermartelli. 1577.
  • La vita et institutioni del Giovan. Taulero [Life and Institutions of Johannes Tauler] (in Italian). Florence: per Filippo Giunti. 1590.
  • La storia di Raugia (in Italian). Lucca: per il Busdrago. 1595.
  • Istoria de gli huomini: cosi nelle prelature, come nelle dottrine del sacro ordine de gli predicatori (in Italian). Lucca: per il Busdrago. 1596.
  • Giardino d'essempi, ouero Fiori delle vite de' Santi (in Italian). Venice: presso Daniel Zanetti. 1599.

References
  1. Apel, Willi (1969). Harvard dictionary of music. Harvard University Press. p. 464. In the second half of the 16th century Fra Serafino Razzi inaugurated a vast literature of laude in the popular styles of the villanella and canzonetta [ex. by G. Animuccia in SchGMB, no. 120]. Frequently, folksongs and dance melodies were used with the religious texts
  2. Garriott, Anita (1973). Fra Serafino Razzi and his laude collections of the sixteenth century.
  3. Sorella, Sergio. "Tra sviluppo e decadenza". Termoli. Donzelli: 418. ISBN 9788860363718.


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