Poet/poetic source: Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) Gli Asolani (1505)
Poetic form/text type: None
Music composer: Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568)
Music source: Primo libro di madrigali a3 (Antonio Gardano press, Venice, 1542)
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Voi mi poneste in foco, Per farmi anzi ’l mio dì, Donna, perire; E perché questo mal vi parea poco, Col pianto raddoppiaste il mio languire. Or io vi vo’ ben dire: Levate l’un martire, Che di due morti, io non posso morire. |
You have set me afire, To make me perish before my time, Lady; And since this injury seems so little to you, With weeping you doubled my anguish. Now to you I will say Lift one torment, As from two deaths I cannot die. |