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The CD cover shows a detail (in mirror image) from Pinturicchio's fresco “The Dispute of Saint Catherine of Alexandria”. We see Lucrezia Borgia, the mother of the alleged composer Leonora d'Este.

Pinturicchio was fond of a bit of theater. Triumphal arches in the style of Constantine the Great, Lucrezia Borgia as the model for the eloquent Caterina and her brother Cesare on the throne of Maximinus Daia, the Roman governor of Egypt.

The fresco is in Vatican Museums, Borgia Apartment, Room of the Saints.

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Sacellum Georgii 1mo ago

Finally, two interesting links.

The first link refers to an interview with Laurie Stras in the Guardian.

The second link is a YouTube video in which Laurie Stras elaborates on her research and introduces the CD.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/mar/10/radical-motets-from-16th-century-nunnery-musica-secreta-lucrezia-borgia#comment-94652426

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1VpW284L08

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