Stephanus [Stefano] Thoro [Toro] {Paul III-Marcellus II}
Soprano; Naples; formerly in the Cappella Giulia (May-July, 1535 ); admitted 1 August 1535; mandati : August 1535 -April 1555 ; on 28 August 1554, he was given permission to go to Naples until Christmas because of illness; he remained in Naples and died in March or early April 1555; a funeral mass was celebrated in the church of San Salvatore in Lauro on 29 April 1555.
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DS 1
16r: entry dated 1 August 1535 [CASIMIRI (1924), p. 96]
Eadem die fuit admissus in cantorem Stephanus Neapolitanus ac in presentia omnium cantorum in parva capella a venerabili viri Bartolomeo de Creta [Croto] magistro capelle superpellicio indutus etiam per sacra Evangelia observare privilegia tenere secretaque capelle, atque suis confratribus obedire iuravit.
17v: entry dated 26 September 1535 [CASIMIRI (1924), p. 98]
Eadem die Stephanus neapolitanus soluit duodecim ducatos, decem ad participandum omnia regalia et duos ducatos pro superpellitio.
DS 4
60r: entry dated 28 August 1554 [CASIMIRI (1936), p. 154]
Eodem die congregatis dominis cantoribus una cum domino magistro capelle dederunt licentiam ad d. Stefanum eundi ad patriam usque ad nativitatem domini nostri propter infirmitatem.
84r: entry dated 29 April 1555 [CASIMIRI (1937), p. 20]
Cantavimus missam in Sancto Sansalvatore in Lauro propter obsequias d. Stephani Toro.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, p. 98; CASIMIRI ; FREY, Die Diarien , p. 131.