Staffarda Abbey
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Staffarda Abbey (Abbazia Santa Maria di Staffarda) is a Cistercian monastery located near Saluzzo in north-west Italy; it was founded as a daughter house of Tiglieto Abbey in 1135 by Manfred I, Marquis of Saluzzo. The abbey became an important local centre for agriculture and held a flourishing market. It was placed in commendam to the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus in 1750.
A portrait of Cesare Alessandro Scaglia di Verrua, abbot of Staffarda, painted by Antony van Dyck in about 1634, is now in the National Gallery in London.[1]
An important musical manuscript, the Codex Staffarda, dating to the 1480s or 1490s and containing reference to the commandatory abbot Brixianus Taparelli, is now in the National University Library of Turin.[2] It includes polyphonic works by Renaissance composers such as Jacob Obrecht and Antoine Brumel, as well as the earliest surviving example of a polyphonic Dies Irae by an otherwise unknown composer, Engarandus Juvenis.
References
- ^ London, The National Gallery. "Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of the Abbé Scaglia - NG6575 - National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
- ^ Cristina Santarelli Essay Il manoscritto musicale dell'abbazia di Staffarda. in Studi piemontesi - Volume 27 - Page 509 Centro studi piemontesi - 1998 "Conservato presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino sotto la segnatura Ris. Mus. I, 27, il cosiddetto Codice di Staffarda si colloca fra le più importanti testimonianze della vita musicale pedemontana. Le vicende del codice, redatto nel XVI secolo ..." reprinted in Rinaldo Comba, Grado G. Merlo L'Abbazia di Staffarda e l'irradiazione cistercense nel Piemonte Page 339 1999
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