Felix [Felice]  de Nola  {Julius II}

Lodi; in the chapel of the Duke of Ferrara, 1502-1505, 1506-1509; in the chapel of the Marchese of Mantua, 1510-1514; earliest reference (as member of the papal chapel), expectative list of March 1506;  mandati : April 1507; unpublished beneficial documents : Annate 48, fol. 33v: entry dated 29 November 1504; Annate 48, fol. 189r: entry dated 5 December 1504; RS 1244, fol. 32r: supplication dated 15 September 1506; RS 1441, fols. 134v-135r: supplication dated 11 February 1514.

De Nola was a Franciscan monk. In 1506, he was translated to the Augustinian order and was apparently was simultaneously a singer both of the papal chapel and the chapel of the Duke of Ferrara, beginning perhaps as early as 1504. He then moved to the chapel of the Marquis of Mantua, but left the Mantuan chapel in 1514, possibly for Rome, although there are no documents indicating that he rejoined the papal chapel (he is not to be identified with Giovanni Francesco Felici who joined the chapel in 1518).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: PRIZER, William. "La Cappella di Francesco II Gonzaga e la Musica Sacra a Mantova nel Primo Ventennio del Cinquecento." In Mantova e I Gonzaga nella Civiltà del Rinascimento (Mantua, 1977), pp. 267-276; LOCKWOOD, Lewis. "Jean Mouton and Jean Michel: French Music and Musicians in Italy, 1505-1420."  Journal of the American Musicological Society 32 (1979): 210; LOCKWOOD, Lewis. Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505  (Cambridge MA, 1984), pp. 327-328.