Bernardus [Bernardo] Pisano [de Paulis, Paulo]
Soprano; Florence; born 12 October 1490; singer in the cathedral of Florence and Baptistry, 1511 - 1513 ; admitted 20 August 1514 [according to the list in DS 2, fol. 94v]; earliest reference, picks up monthly payment for the chapel in July 1515 [ IE 554]; notarial list of September 1522 ; supplication lists of [ 1525-1526 ]; receipt lists of [ 1525-1526 ] and December 1526 ; mandati : July-September 1529 ; April 1530 -February 1548 ; see FREY (1956): 413-414 for a bull dated 1 November 1517 ; died in Rome on 23 January 1548 and was buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva [ DS 2, fol. 38v]; punctator in 1537 ; dean as of December 1530 , although he is replaced in the months that Scribano returns to the choir.
FREY (1955): 63 conflates Pisano with the singer Bernardus Benedicti who was admitted in August 1514 (see Benedicti ), referring to a "Bernardus Benedicti (auch de Paulis)." This would seem to be correct, first because Pisano's father was named Benedetto (so he would have been called in Italian "Bernardo di Benedetto Pagoli") and also because a Bernardus Benedicti de Paulis, cleric of Florence and singer in the chapel, who can only be Pisano, was a witness for a notarial document in 1523 [see Document 2.6]. The only problem with the identification is the low salary of 4 ducats assigned to Bernardus Benedicti in August 1514, so it is still possible that he was a different singer. For a work list, see TNG .
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Frank A. D'ACCONE , "Bernardo Pisano: An Introduction to his Life and Works," ®MDUL¯ Musica Disciplina 17 (1963): 464-83.