Tra quante regione ("Amongst all the regions") is a ballata by the late medieval and early renaissance composer Hugo de Lantins. As with another vocal composition by Guillaume Dufay entitled Vasilissa ergo gaude, Lantins' ballata celebrated the marriage of the Italian princess Cleofa Malatesta with the Byzantine Despot of the Morea Theodore II Palaiologos.F. Alberto Gallo, Giulio Cattin, La polifonia nel medioevo, Torino 1991, p. 104 The marriage took place on 21 January 1421 or sometime in 1422 in Mystra.Leofranc Holford-Strevens, "Du Fay the Poet? Problems in the Texts of His Motets", Early Music History, Vol. 16, (1997), p. 102Silvia Ronchey, "Orthodoxy on Sale: The last Byzantine and the lost Crusade", in Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, 21–26 August 2006, p. 323 The actual date and place of the first performance remain disputedIain Fenlon, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 106, footnote 29
Tra quante regione el sol si mobele Gira e reguarda cum intiera fede Quanti ti, Sparta, beata non vede.Amongst all the regions the sun so mobile revolving views with good faith, he sees, O Sparta, none so happy as thee.Tu fosti albergo di Elena regina, Che per tanto che fe Stancho le force de che scripse mayThou wast the home of Queen Helen, who by all that she did wore out the strength of all who ever wroteOra possedi cosa piu divina Madona Cleophe De Malatesti, nata come say.Now thou possessest a diviner thing, Madona Cleofe dei Malatesti, whose birth thou knowest.Quest'en le lode e le possance c'hay Gionto a l' impero de Constantinopele Cum tanta baronia si grande e nobele.These are the praises and powers thou hast added to the empire of Constantinople with so mighty a lordship, so great and noble.Both the original text and the English translation are found in Iain Fenlon, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 106
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