Poet/poetic source: Anonymous poet
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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Già Febo il tuo splendor rendeva chiaro il mondo e lo facea vago ed adorno, al spontar del tuo lume altiero il giorno sempre nascea a noi sereno e caro. Già per natura e privilegio raro luce porgea a l'un'e l'altro corno di Cintia, sì che fiammeggiando intorno quasi giostrava col tuo lume a paro. |
Already Phoebus, your splendor brightened the world and made it lovely and ornamented, and at the dawning of your noble light the day always was born to us serene and dear. Already by nature and rare privilege, it offered light to each horn of Cynthia, so much so that, blazing from within, it almost contended equally with your light. |