Poet/poetic source: Anonymous poet
Poetic form/text type: None
Music composer: Andrea Gabrieli (c.1532-1585)
Music source: Il primo libro de madrigali a6 voci (Gardano press, Venice, 1574)
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Dalle Cimerie grotte l'ombre e i sogni e gli horror già tratti avea, e in silentio rendea l'aria, la terra, e l'atra umida notte, e in tenebroso velo stavan taciti involti il Mondo e'l Cielo. |
From the Cimmerian caverns, shadows, dreams, and terrors were already withdrawn, and into silence returned the air, the earth, and the dark, damp night, and in a tenebrous veil, the world and the heavens were wrapped in silence. |