The motets of Philippe de Vitry and the fourteenth-century renaissance
Andrew Wathey
Towards the end of August 1350, Petrarch wrote from his home at Padua to Philippe de Vitry, chastising friend for a letter that he had sent their mutual patron, Cardinal Guy Boulogne, papal legate in Italy. Vitry's mind has slowed since first acquaintance, writes Petrarch, so now considers even glorious absence France undesirable. The man who, when asked where was from, answered citizen world, thinks any departure an exile. dust lies too heavily on shoes; Petit-Pont Paris, ‘its arch not quite shape tortoise shell’, is appealing him, and murmur Seine delights ear much.
Early Music History