Paulus [Paolo]  Bursanis [de Quevedo]  {Paul III}

Soprano; Rome, but of Spanish origin; formerly in San Lorenzo in Damaso, (January 1533-May  1535 ); admitted to the papal choir 6 July  1535, along with Giovanni Abbate and Mattia Fioran;  mandati : June  1535 -December  1546 ;  died  at the age of 43 on 6 November  1546  in Rome and was buried in Santa Maria del Popolo, a funeral Mass was celebrated in that church on 22 December 1546.

LLORENS gives his epitaph:

D.O.M. PAULO BURSANO CANTORI CELEBERRIMO ATO. OB. ID PAULO III P.M. GRATISSIMO QUI VIXIT ANNOS XLIII DIES III BERNARDUS BURSANUS FILIUS EIUS ADOPTIVUS PATRI DULCISS. ET BENEMERENTI P.C. OBIIT AN. A PARTU VIRGINIS MDXLVI OCTAVO IDUS NOVEMBRIS

 

DOCUMENTS

DS 1

fol. 15v: entry dated 6 July 1535 [CASIMIRI (1924), p. 95]

Fuerunt admissi in cantores Joannes Ab.te, Mathias de Tervisio et Paulus [Bursa]nis.

DS 3

20r: entry dated 6 November 1546 [CASIMIRI (1934), p. 81

Eadem die d. Paulus Bursanus clericus romanus vita functus est hora 16 et hora 23 sepultus est in ecclesia Sancte Marie de Populo, concomitantibus cantoribus funus, quia cantor noster erat.

22r: entry dated 22 December 1546 [CASIMIRI (1934), p. 83]

Exequias d. Pauli Bursani clerici romani et cantoris nostri celebravimus in ecclesia de populo.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:  CASIMIRI ;  LLORENS , Josef. "Cinco cantores españoles en la capilla pontificia,"  Anuario Musical  36 (1981): 69-90;  FREY, Die Diarien, p. 131.