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For four days between December 11 and 15, 1515, a remarkable meeting between Pope Leo X and the French King Francis I took place. Historians remember it as the occasion when the essential issues of the Concordat of Bologna, drawn up the following year, were negotiated, resulting in abolition on the part of the French of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438) so repugnant to the pontiff because it insulated the French church from papal authority, and, by papal concession, in the increased control of the French church by the king. In political history this event has been accorded only nominal attention, but for students of music the festive occasion of the meeting at Bologna oftwo rulers possessing the largest and the most notable musical chapels of the time has long exerted fascination. While they whet our appetite for even more detail, the accounts of chroniclers and the testimony of correspondents permit us to reconstruct a fair sense of the pageantry attendant to such an occasion. A summary of the events would include: 1. The arrival of the king on Thursday, December II-the pope having preceded him by three days with a sullen reception by the Bolognese populace-was
Explorations in Renaissance Culture – Brill
Published: Dec 2, 1991
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