This text examines the motet Dominus dabit benignitatem by the Italian sixteenth-century composer Ludovico Balbi. Balbi was born in Venice and was a singer at St Mark's later also working at Verona, Padua, Feltre, and Treviso. The motet was published in his 1578 Ecclesiasticarum cantionum, dedicated to the Chapter of the Veronese Cathedral, printed in Venice by Angelo Gardano.
Luís Henriques (Sun,) studied this question.