Johannes Franciscus de [Giovanni Francesco di]  Basidanis [Guidanis?, da Lodi] {Leo X}

Bass; Lodi; in the chapel of the Duke of Ferrara,  1491- 1510  ; in the chapel of the Marchese of Mantua,   1510  - 1514 ; earliest reference, an entry dated 7 May  1519 ; unpublished beneficial documents : LR 25, fol. 21r: entry dated 7 May  1519 .

The only reference to this singer in a Vatican document is somewhat unclear as to his last name; the first three letters have been overwritten and it looks as if "Basi" was changed to "Gui", but this is not certain. However, the first two names and the designation "clericus laudensis, S.D.N. cantor et capellanus" are unmistakeable. Given that the action described in the document is the resignation of a benefice in Mantua, it seems likely that this singer is indeed the Johannes Franciscus da Lodi who was a member of the Ferrarese and Mantuan chapels and was presumably one of the singers enticed to Rome at the beginning of Leo's pontificate (he had left Mantua by May 1514).

BIBLIOGRAPHY:  PRIZER, William "La cappella di Francesco II Gonzaga e la musica sacra a Mantova nel primo ventennio del Cinquecento,"in [no editor] Mantova e I Gonzaga nella Civiltà del Rinascimento (Mantua, 1977), pp. 267-276; LOCKWOOD, Lewis. Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505 (Cambridge, Ma, 1984).