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This paper explores Margaret's patronage of her compatriot, the Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore, and his musical tributes to her. A careful reading of the texts of three madrigals that can securely be connected with Farnese patronage enables speculation about the chronology of their connection. Court secretary Tomaso Machiavelli composed at least one of the dedicatory sonnets, and possibly others. Another madrigal that has continued to be associated with the 1565 wedding of Alessandro Farnese and Maria of Portugal, and sometimes with Cipriano, can be shown, using a compendium of the composer's stylistic elements compiled by Anthony Newcomb, to be the work of one of Cipriano's students, and unrelated to the wedding.
Jessie Ann Owens (Fri,) studied this question.