Federicus [Federigo] Lagisius [Lagisio, Algisius] {Paul III-Gregory XIII}
Contralto; Rome; formerly in the Cappella Giulia (April-December 1539 ); admitted 30 December 1543; mandati : February 1544 -October 1571 ; in list of 1573 ; the notes for the commission of cardinals mention that he was rich and kept a mistress ["dives bonus concubinarius"--Document 1.16]; on 4 March 1574 , after 30 years as a singer, he asked permission to retire because of age but to be allowed to keep his salary ; this must have been granted because when the mandati lists resume in 1580 , he is listed among the "second class" singers from January 1580 -October 1582 at a pension of 9 ducats (equal to the normal monthly salary); in November 1582 his name is crossed out and he is absent from the December 1582 list, so he probably died in late October 1582 in Rome; abbas in 1548 ; punctator in 1561 .
DOCUMENTS
DS 1
45r: entry dated 30 December 1543 [CASIMIRI (1933), p. 55]
Eadem die fuit admissus in cantorem capellae D. Federicus de Lagisi per R. p. d. Magistrum capelle de mandato S.mi D. N. Pape..
DS 10
56r: entry dated 10 March 1574
AD PERPETUAM REY MEMORIAM
Die x martii 1574. In congreatione dd. cantorum in cappella Sixti R. P.D. magister cappellae retulit dd cantoribus qualiter ad instanciam dd federici lazisi et alexandri meruli cantores cappellae supplicavit S.mo D.N. Gregorio xiii ut asignaret eis idoneam recompensam ut commode possint vivere extra capellam attento quod per longum tempus inservierunt dicte cappelle et nunc alter senio confectus alter vero valetudinarius non possunt ulterius insistere divinis offitiis et quotidianis dicte cappelle et S.mus D.N. volens presentare laudabilem consuetudinem dicte cappelle mandavit consegnare dictis federico et Alex.o consuetum salarium actenus eis solitum dare quolibet mense eorum vita durante et in fide.
Ego federcis lazisius fuit contentus et confirmo ut supra
Ego Alessander merulus sunt contentus et affirmo ut supra
Ego anto.s calasanz decanus capelle fui presents scripture relationis per p.d. magistrum facte et ita atestor
Et ego Christianus Ameyden abbas capelle S.mi D.N. sunt presents
Ego Jo de figueroa puntator dicte cappelle fuit presents ad omnia suprascripta et in fide hic me subscripse Jo de figueroa
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 101; CASIMIRI ; FREY, Die Diarien, p. 134; SHERR, "Competence and Incompetence."