Poet/poetic source: Girolamo Romanino (c.1485-c.1566)
Poetic form/text type: madrigal
Music composer: Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)
Music source: L'Ottavo Libro de Madrigali a5 (Venice, 1586)
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Io non son però morto, donna, come pensate, perché più non m'amate; anzi ritorno in vita. ché l'alma in voi sepolta da voi sendosi sciolta si trova esser uscita d'una prigion mortale, E cangia in vita e in ben la morte e'l male. |
Though I'm not dead, my lady, as you think, for you no longer love me; instead, I return to life. For the soul buried in you feeling itself released finds it has escaped from a mortal prison, and transforms death and evil into life and goodness. |