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 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 (2009). "Tra sviluppo e decadenza". Termoli. Donzelli: 418. ISBN 9788860363718.


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