Madama Europa

Madama Europa, probabiliter rite Europa Rossi (floruit 1600), soror Salomonis Rossi, violinistae compositorisque Iudaici, fuit una ex primis cantoribus operaticis.[1] Ea probabiliter nomen sumpsit ex Europa, persona mythologica quam ea in intermedio apud curiam regalem Mantuae ante 1600 oblato egit.[2] Veri simile est eam cum fratre necatam esse anno 1630, quando, Gonzagis a copiis imperialibus victis curiaque Gonzagana confecta, milites imperiales quadratum Iudaicum diripuerunt.[3]

Notae

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  1. ↑ Don Harran, "Madama Europa, Jewish Singer in Late Renaissance Mantua," in Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Buelow, ed. Thomas J. Mathiesen et Benito V. Rivera (1995), 197.
  2. ↑ Eduard Birnbaum et Judith Cohen, Jewish Musicians at the Court of the Mantuan Dukes (1542-1628) (1978): "However, Newman points out that the name 'Madama Europa' is listed already before 1600 among the salaried employees of the Mantuan court; he therefore assumes that Rossi's sister had already appeared as 'Europa' in an earlier Intermezzo."
  3. ↑ Shlomo Simonsohn, History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1977).