Figure 36

Preface of De Castro's chanson book for François De La Porte. ©Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket.

De Castro's preface to the Second livre de chansons, madrigalz et motetz à trois parties addressed to François De La Porte, is more than a mere enumeration of hollow polite phrases: it describes the consequences of the Spanish Fury for a young composer who is forced to make career elsewhere.

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