Bartolino da Bologna

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Bartolomeo da Bologna (... - 1427 ) was an Italian composer, active at the beginning of the 15th century in the transition period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Very little is known about his life, but it is thought that he was originally from Bologna or its surroundings and appears to have spent part of his life in Ferrara . He was a Benedictine monk and may have been the prior of the church of San Nicolò in Ferrara; he was certainly an organist there in 1407 and it is documented that he was in the cathedral of the Este city at the beginning of 1427. It also seems that he was employed in the chapel of Antipope Giovanni XXIII in Bologna since one of his ballads ( Arte psalentes ) is probably dedicated to the singers of his choir. (He is frequently mentioned in manuscripts with the Latin name of "Bartolomeus de Bononia"). Bartolomeo is one of the few native Italian composers of the early 15th century whose works have survived with reliable attribution; many of the musicians in Italy during the fifteenth century were foreigners and only later, in the course of the century, were there many Italians in addition to composers from northern Europe. Only seven pieces by Bartolomeo have survived, all in three voices: two mass movements and five secular songs , including three ballads , a rondo and a virelai . Stylistically they are all linked to the ars subtilior , which flourished in Avignon , Bologna and in other regions governed by theantipope during the Western Sch

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