To The Most Illustrious Lady and My Most Worshipful Patroness
The Lady Beatrice Caetana Cesi,

Charged of a thousand honors the fair Vesta
From seven hills descends, when
All pleasant, each other care in banishment
Post, you have run for to make it festival:
Come to of the Heaven, and that part, and this
With the Triton Goddess joyful beholding
You go: There the love all wishing
Fierce the new mirth manifests.
The soul frowning with the Graces, and the Hours,
And dancing, and singing in among the Nymphs,
Was inflaming with love each proud soul:
The bird of Jove went out of the whence forth,
Whence Triton of the Tebro within the silver streaming springs
Said: of Beatrice is the Barrier.

Original rhyme scheme - ABBA/ABBA/CDECDE

To the Same Most Illustrious Lady,
The Lady Beatrice Caetana Cesi.

Blessed you, which others bless you are able,
And to the Heaven to raise with glorious wings:
To whom, with the clear eyes, today yielded forth
All the fair, all the good of the high seats:
Royal lady gentle; whence at all times reaps
The world immortal life; the time deceives,
Clear I perceive, which so much turns the Sun
Is nothing, in comparison to your graceful sun.

Original rhyme scheme - ABABABCC

Barriera (Barrier)
Balletto of M. Battistino;

In Praise of My Most Illustrious Lady and Most Worshipful Patroness
The Lady Beatrice Caetana Cesi.

The man will stand to the right hand of the lady (as is able to see in the picture of the Bellezze d'Olimpia) and with his left hand will take the right of the lady, and they will do together the Riverenza, and 2 Continenze, the 1 to the left, and the other to the right: then the man will guide the lady with the hand, doing in manner of half moon, 2 Seguiti ordinarii back, and the lady thence will do another 2 forward, passing before the man; to the end of which each one will return to their place, that is the lady to the right hand, and the man to the left, as is used in starting the other Balli: then the man letting go the left of the lady, will take her by the right, and a little facing they will do together the Riverenza.

In the second time, walking together, they will do 2 Puntate gravi, 4 Passi gravi, and 1 Seguito ordinario, with 2 Riprese to the right, and 2 Continenze, the 1 to the left, and the other to the right.

In the third time, they will do the same walk.

In the fourth time, they will return to do the same walk, in the end of the which, in place of the 2 Continenze, they will do the Riverenza grave.

In the fifth time, they will take the right hand, and will do 2 Puntate: then letting it go, they will do 4 Passi gravi turned to the left; therefore changing place, and taking to the field enough, they will do 1 Seguito ordinario to the left flank, with 2 Riprese to the right, and the Riverenza grave facing.

In the sixth time, the man alone will do 4 Passi gravi flanked forward, and in the starting in, the right part of the Cape will be put under his right arm, as is shown in the picture of the Balletto Alta Regina, and he will be careful to do this act gracefully: after the which turning in perspective to the left, he will do 1 Passo grave with the left foot, and the Riverenza with the right: he will do the same turning the body in perspective to the right, and doing 1 Passo with the right foot, and the Riverenza with the left: back then he will do 4 Passi trangati flanked, after the which they will do together the Riverenza.

In the seventh time, the lady alone will do the same, which the man will have done.

To the sciolta grave of the Sonata.

Walking together, they will do 2 Doppii gravi, one to the left, and the other to the right: after that will be done 2 Puntate gravi flanked back; then scurrying 2 Seguiti, the hands will be taken, and in the end of these, they will do meza Riverenza.  They will return then to do the 4 Passi trangati flanked back, as they did in the first change, turning both to the left with 2 Seguiti ordinarii.

They will return to do this same walk another turn, except, that instead of the 2 Seguiti turned, they will do the Riverenza grave facing.

To the sciolta of the Sonata in Saltarello.

They will do together 4 Seguiti spezzati forward flanked: then the lady feigning to kiss the hands, she will give 1 beat upon the hands of the man, and the same after will do this; then they will do together 1 Trabuchetto to the left, giving it another beat to the tight hand: they will return to do the same by opposite, that is 1 Trabuchetto to the right, giving 1 beat to the left, with 2 Continenze, 1 to the left, and the other to the right: then taking the right hand, they will do together the Riverenza grave.

To the sciolta of the Sonata in Gagliarda.

Letting go the hand, they will do 4 Seguiti ordinarii flanked back, together with the turns of the Ballo, called the Contrapasso: finally they will do together 4 Passi gravi forward; then the man taking the lady by the ordinary hand, he will pause her in the head of the hall, or where they will turn most commodiously, and they will finish the Ballo with doing together the Riverenza grave.

Lute tablature, of the Balletto Barriera.


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