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I'd keep the "piano" and "forte" personally. Any gamba consort playing this would be very familiar to this kind of notation, as the abbreviated forms were pretty much inexistent in the renaissance and baroque. Nothing wrong with using the "old style" there, if you -are- imitating a certain historic style in the first place. The same applies to keeping it for gamba consort instead of string quartet. I mean, there's nothing wrong with using a string quartet, but if your aim is to make a piece that sounds like a renaissance piece, then by all means feel free to use renaissance instruments. If you find a string quartet who wants to play this for you and you'd agree with that, you still can make a version for string quartet.
In any case, I agree that they're really nice pieces!
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