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.