Poet/poetic source: Ludovico Ariosto, Rime madrigale III
Poetic form/text type: None
Music composer: Luca Marenzio (c.1553-1599)
Music source: Il secondo libro de madrigali a5 voci (Venice, 1582)
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Amor, io non potrei aver da te se non ricca mercede, poiché quanto amo lei, Madonna il vede. Deh! fa ch’ella sappia anco, quel che forse non crede, quanto io sia già presso a venir manco: se pur nascosa è a lei la pena mia. Ch’ella lo sappia fia tanto sollevamento a’ dolor miei, ch’io ne vivrò, dov'or me ne morrei. |
Love, I could not have from you aught but rich reward, since how I love her, my Lady sees. Ah! Make her yet know that which she haps does not believe, how I am already close to fading away: if my pain is also hidden from her. That she knows of it, it would be such relief to my suffering, that I will life by it, whereas now I would die of it. |