The LAUDARE team is taking part in the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen) 2026, held from 6 to 10 July at the University of Warsaw (Old University Library Building, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26).
The project opened its presence in Warsaw on Monday 6 July with the session “San Gaudenzo: A New Source of the Italian Trecento” (Room F), chaired by Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert. Four members of the team presented the newly recovered manuscript from complementary angles:
- Francesco Zimei — Discovery, restoration, and main features of the source
- Giacomo Pirani — From analysis to digital reassembling
- Matteo Leonardi — The poetic texts
- Lucia Marchi — The unica of the Italian repertory
The team returns on Thursday 9 July with the session “Hidden and Forgotten: at the Boundaries of the Italian Lauda”, chaired by Lucia Marchi: the three papers explore repertories that sit on the edges of the lauda tradition:
- Luisa Passamani — Ave mundi spes Maria: a devotional composition between liturgical chant and Italian lauda
- Anita Sisino — New reflections on the lauda background in I-PEc MS G 20 (alias MS 431)
- Luca Benedetti — Hints of lost music: the laude of Benedetto da Cingoli
The session reflects one of LAUDARE’s core concerns: understanding the lauda not as an isolated genre but as a porous, intermedial tradition in constant dialogue with the wider musical and devotional culture of medieval and early modern Italy.