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Above, top: Laurie Stras, centre, and Musica Secreta, (Image: Nick Rutter). Above: Musica Secreta, (Image: Kate Beaugié). Right: Cover of the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, Library of the Royal Conservatories of Brussels, Belgium Manuscript B-Bc 27766 (binding). 66 Restoration Conversations • Autumn / Winter 2022
of the Office in the choir. This wouldn’t be tiring for me, except that I do not understand Latin at all.” After being condemned by the Roman Inquisition in 1633 for his theory of a suncentred cosmos, Galileo returned to live under house arrest in Arcetri, in a villa within view of his daughter’s convent. Just four months after he arrived there in 1634, Sister Maria Celeste died of dysentery at the age of 33. All that remains of the original Convent of San Matteo is a door and a courtyard, but it is possible to imagine how the convent looked from a whimsical document created, during Maria Celeste’s lifetime, by a visiting archbishop. Concerned about the fact that the villagers in Arcetri had to come into the convent to draw water from their well, the archbishop drew a map showing the existing layout – in preparation for building a well outside the convent walls. “He must have had a lot of time on his hands,” Stras comments, pointing out the details. “It even has little footsteps, almost like the Harry Potter maps.” One can only wonder how much longer the villagers lingered at the well, just to hear the voices of the nuns chanting the psalms and reciting stories in music. For them, it might have been the high point in a long day of arduous toil. For us, it is further proof of how essential the female voices emanating from Renaissance convents were to the everyday well-being of the city. RC Available as a download or CD, Mother Sister Daughter concludes with Musica Secreta’s first commissioned work: The Veiled Sisters by British composer Joanna Marsh. This work weaves together the present and the past, combining the words of contemporary Norfolk poet Esther Morgan and the seventeenth-century poet Alessandro Francucci, contrasting the moment a beautiful young singer enters a convent with the view of another woman looking out from a dark interior. www.musicasecreta.org Autumn / Winter 2022 • Restoration Conversations 67
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