Hi Gesine,
Why was More Palatino popular as you mention? Simple. It’s a drunken student drinking song, in Latin to boot.
More palatino bibimus; ne gutta supersit
unde suam possit musca levare sitem.
Sic bibimus, sic vivimus
dum Academici.
We drink in palatial style; and not a drop should remain
by which a fly could quench her thirst.
Thus we drink, thus we live
while we are students.
All the learned composers who drank as students would know it. :-)
Cheers!
Andrew
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