Tra quante regione is a ballata

Ballata

The ballata is an Italian poetic and musical form, which was in use from the late 13th to the 15th century. It has the musical structure AbbaA, with the first and last stanzas having the same texts. It is thus most similar to the French musical 'forme fixe' virelai...

 by the late medieval and early renaissance composer Hugo de Lantins

Hugo de Lantins

Hugo de Lantins was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He was active in Italy, especially Venice, and wrote both sacred and secular music; he may have been a relative of Arnold de Lantins, another composer active at the same time in the same area.Little is...

. As with another vocal composition by Guillaume Dufay

Guillaume Dufay

Guillaume Dufay was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.-Early life:From the evidence of his will, he was probably born in Beersel, in the vicinity of...

 entitled Vasilissa ergo gaude

Vasilissa ergo gaude

Vasilissa ergo gaude is an isorhythmic motet by the Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay. In terms of its subject matter, it is sometimes grouped together with Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Apostolus gloriosus and Balsamus et munda cera which are generically called...

, Lantins' ballata celebrated the marriage of the Italian princess Cleofa Malatesta

Cleofa Malatesta

Cleofa Malatesta da Pesaro was an Italian noblewoman and the wife of Theodore II Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, brother of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor. She was a daughter ofMalatesta dei Sonetti, count of Pesaro, and of Isabella Gonzaga...

 with the Byzantine

Byzantine

Byzantine usually refers to the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.Byzantine may also refer to:* A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or native Greek during the Middle Ages...

 Despot of the Morea

Despotate of Morea

The Despotate of the Morea or Despotate of Mystras was a province of the Byzantine Empire which existed between the mid-14th and mid-15th centuries. Its territory varied in size during its 100 years of existence but eventually grew to take in almost all the southern Greek peninsula, the...

 Theodore II Palaiologos. The marriage took place on the 21st of January 1421 or sometime in 1422 in Mystra. The actual date and place of the first performance remain disputed

Tra quante regione el sol si mobele Gira e reguarda cum intiera fede Quanti ti, Sparta, beata non vede.	Amongst all the regions the sun so mobile revolving views with good faith, he sees, O Sparta, none so happy as thee.
Tu fosti albergo di Elena regina, Che per tanto che fe Stancho le force de che scripse may	Thou wast the home of Queen Helen, who by all that she did wore out the strength of all who ever wrote
Ora possedi cosa piu divina Madona Cleophe De Malatesti, nata come say.	Now thou possessest a diviner thing, Madona Cleofe dei Malatesti, whose birth thou knowest.
Quest'en le lode e le possance c'hay Gionto a l' impero de Constantinopele Cum tanta baronia si grande e nobele.	These are the praises and powers thou hast added to the empire of Constantinople with so mighty a lordship, so great and noble.