Anonymous - Harto de tanta porfía (early 16th century)

Cancionero de Palacio (c. 1505-20): "Harto de tanta porfía"

Harto de tanta porfía
Jordi Savall · Anonymous · Hespèrion XX · La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Cancioneros del Siglo de Oro (Colombina- Palacio- Medinaceli 1451-1595)
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The Cancionero de Palacio (Madrid, Biblioteca Real, MS II–1335), or Cancionero Musical de Palacio (CMP), also known as Cancionero de Barbieri, is a Spanish manuscript of Renaissance music. The works in it were compiled during a time span of around 40 years, from the mid-1470s until the beginning of the 16th century, approximately coinciding with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.

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The Revolt of the Brotherhoods (Catalan: Revolta de les Germanies, Spanish: Rebelión de las Germanías) was a revolt by artisan guilds (Germanies) against the government of King Charles V in the Kingdom of Valencia, part of the Crown of Aragon. It took place from 1519–1523, with most of the fighting occurring during 1521. The Valencian revolt inspired a related revolt in the island of Majorca, also part of Aragon, which lasted from 1521–1523.

The revolt was an anti-monarchist, anti-feudal autonomist movement inspired by the Italian republics. It also bore a strong anti-Islamic aspect, as rebels rioted against Valencia's peasant Muslim population (also called mudéjars, to contrast with crypto-Muslims or Moriscos in the Crown of Castile, where Islam was outlawed) and imposed forced conversions to Christianity. The agermanats are comparable to the comuneros of neighboring Castile, who fought a similar revolt against Charles from 1520–1522. Both rebellions were partially inspired by the departure for Germany of Charles, the new King of both Castile and Aragon (in a personal union that would form the basis for the Kingdom of Spain), to take the throne as Holy Roman Emperor and leaving behind a somewhat disreputable Royal Council and regent.

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Lyrics:

Harto de tanta porfia
sostengo veyir tan fuerte
qu’es triste el ánima mia
fasta que venga la muerte

Fin hara la profecia
dada por mi la muerte
qu’es triste el ánima mia
fasta que venga la muerte

En tus manos la mi vida
encomiendo, condenado.
Ten piedad merecida
por que m’has desamparado.

Text: Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana (1398 - 1458)