Johannes Antonius [Giovanni Antonio] Latinus [Latino] {Paul IV-Pius V}
Bass; Benevento; admitted without examination on the order of Cardinal Carlo Caraffa, 6 June 1558; mandati : June 1558 -March 1559 , March 1560 -September 1565 ; Latino was expelled from the chapel by papal order in 1559 because he had been admitted without examination at the wish of Cardinal Carlo Caraffa and had falsified the motu proprio ordering his admission, but he got himself readmitted after Paul IV's death and through Caraffa's influence on 25 February 1560; although the opinion of the commission of cardinals in 1565 of his voice was not totally negative ("ha voce assai grande, ma si potrebbe migliorare"--Document 1.15), Latino was droppped from the choir on 31 August 1565 and assigned a pension of 3 ducats (low, because he had been admitted without audition), and he remains among the "second class" singers from October 1565 -October 1571 ; died December 1573 [according to the list in VatS 681, fol. 77r] and a funeral Mass for his soul as well as for the souls of Firmin Le Bel and Domenico Maria Ferrabosco was celebrated in San Luigi dei Francesi on 4 March 1574.
DOCUMENTS
DS 5
105v: entry dated 4 June 1558 [CASIMRI (1938), p. 138)]
Fuit vesperunt S.me Trinitatis et fuit propositus Jo. Antonius Latinus.
106r: entry dated 6 June 1558 [CASIMIRI (1938), p. 138)]
Hac die fuit congregatio per dominos cantores presente d. Sacriste et fuit misam roquetum Joannes Antonius Latinus.
134v-135r:entry dated 5 April 1559 CASIMIRI (1938), pp. 219-220]
See Barone
161v: entry dated 25 February 1561 [FREY, pp. 17-18]
Item in eadem congregatione R.p.pd. magister retulit quod idem rev.mus protector rogabat collegium, quo ad ipsius instantiam ex gratia speciali collegium remitteret d. Jo. Antonium Latinum in suum pristinum locum, attento quod alias per multos menses inservierat dicte capelle et solverat sua regalia, et quod nolebat videre hanc causam de iustitia, quamvis dictus Jo. Antonius ab eodem Rev.mo postulaverat iustitiam super sua expulsione, a qua non posset declinare, et nihilominus desiderabat id fieri per collegium concorditer ex gratia; ad quod omnes convenerunt, quod intuitu dicti Rev.mi protectoris veniret in choro sua cotta inductus prout pro prius, et prout redierunt ad loca sua d. Jo. Loisius et Nicolaus Baronus.
DS 10
53v: entry dated 4 March 1574 [FREY, p. 137]
See Ferrabosco
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 753; CASIMIRI ; FREY, Die Diarien; SHERR, "Competence and Incompetence."