Editing Josquin des Prez (section)

==== Milan and elsewhere====
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|+Tentative outline of Josquin's life from 1483 to 1489{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=118}}
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! Date
! Location
! Confidence
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| March 1483
| [[Condé-sur-l'Escaut|Condé]]
| Certain
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| August 1483
| Departure from Paris
| Possible
|-
| March 1484
| Rome
| Possible
|-
| 15 May 1484{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}}
| Milan
| Certain
|-
| June–August 1484
| Milan (with [[Ascanio Sforza|Ascanio]])
| Certain
|-
| Up to July 1484
| Rome (with {{abbr|A.|Ascanio}})
| Certain
|-
| July 1485
| Plans to leave (with {{abbr|A.|Ascanio}})
| Certain
|-
| 1485 –&nbsp;?
| Vienna{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=524}}
| Possible
|-
| Jan–Feb 1489
| Milan
| Certain
|-
| Early May 1489
| Milan
| Probable
|-
| June 1489
| Rome (in [[Sistine Chapel Choir|Papal choir]])
| Certain
|}

A surviving record indicates that Josquin was in Milan by 15 May 1484, perhaps just after his 1483 trip to Condé.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}} In March 1484 he may have visited Rome.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=118}} Fallows speculates that Josquin left Condé for Italy so quickly because his inheritance gave him more freedom and allowed him to avoid serving a king who he suspected had caused the deaths of his aunt and uncle.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=105}} By then, the sacred music of [[Milan Cathedral]] had a reputation for excellence.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=109}} Josquin was employed by the [[House of Sforza]], and on 20 June 1484 came into the service of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}} Josquin's renown as a composer, a strong recommendation from a patron of fellow musician, or the use of his wealth, might have helped him get this prestigious and long-term position.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=110}} While working for Ascanio, on 19 August Josquin successfully requested a previously rejected dispensation to be [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] at the [[parish church]] Saint Aubin without having been ordained a priest.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=111}} [[Joshua Rifkin]] dates the well-known motet ''[[Ave Maria ... Virgo serena]]'' to this time, {{circa|1485}}.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§2 "Aix-en-Provence, ?Paris, Condé-sur-l'Escaut (''c''1475–1483)"}}{{sfn|Rifkin|2003|p=305}}{{refn|''Ave Maria ... Virgo serena'' is among Josquin's most frequently analyzed and celebrated works.{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Ave Maria ... virgo serena"}} See {{harvtxt|Dumitrescu|2009}}, {{harvtxt|Milsom|2015}} and {{harvtxt|Rifkin|2003}} for further information on the motet.|name=Ave|group=n}}

Josquin went to Rome with Ascanio in July 1484 for a year, and may have gone to Paris for a litigation suit involving the [[benefice]] in Saint Aubin during the later 1480s.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}} Around this time the poet [[Serafino dell'Aquila]] wrote his sonnet to Josquin, "Ad Jusquino suo compagno musico d'Ascanio" ("To Josquin, his fellow musician of Ascanio"), which asks him "not to be discouraged if his 'genius so sublime' seemed poorly remunerated".{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}}{{sfn|Elders|2013|p=34}}{{refn|See {{harvtxt|Elders|2013|p=34}} for the complete poem and an English translation|group=n}} Between 1485 and 1489 Josquin may have served under the Hungarian king [[Matthias Corvinus]] in Vienna;{{sfn|Fallows|2020|pp=114–115, 524}} an account by the Cardinal [[Girolamo Aleandro]] in 1539 recalls the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom–Budapest|archbishop of Esztergom]] {{ill|Várdai Pál|hu|lt=Pal Varday}} stating that the court of Matthias included "excellent painters and musicians, among them even Josquin himself".{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=112}}{{sfn|Király|1992|p=145}} Some scholars suggest Aleandro was repeating a false rumor,{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}} or that Varday confused Josquin des Prez for [[Josquin Dor]] or [[Johannes de Stokem]].{{sfn|Fallows|2020|pp=112–113}} Fallows contends that it is unlikely that Varday, who was well-educated and a musician, would have made such a mistake, but concedes that it is possible.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=113}} The court of Matthias had a high standard of music and employed numerous musicians, many of them from Italy.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}} Though Fallows asserts that Josquin's presence in the Hungarian king's service is likely,{{sfn|Fallows|2020|p=115}} the evidence is circumstantial, and no original documents survive to confirm the claim.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§3 "Milan and elsewhere (1484–9)"}} Josquin was in Milan again in January 1489, probably until early May, and met the theorist and composer [[Franchinus Gaffurius]] there.{{sfn|Fallows|2020|pp=117–118}}