Poet/poetic source: Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612)
Poetic form/text type: madrigal
Music composer: Vittoria Aleotti (c.1575-c.1620)
Music source: Ghirlanda de madrigali a4 voci (Giacomo Vincenti press, Venice, 1593)
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Or che la vaga aurora sovra un caro di foco appar in ogni loco col figlio di Latona, che'l suo dorato crine a l'Alpi e alle campagne a noi vicine, mostra con dolci accenti questi la ben temprata lira suona onde gli spirti pellegrini intenti odono l'armonia che l'alme nostre al ciel erga ed invia. |
Now that the lovely dawn upon a chariot of fire, appears everywhere with the \auto-footnote "son" \italic "Apollo, son of Leto (Latona in Roman myth) and Zeus" of Latona, and shows her golden locks to the Alps and to fields around us, he expresses with these sweet tones as he plays his well-tuned lyre, so that the wandering spirits intently listen to the harmony that lifts our souls and raises them to heaven. |