Poet/poetic source: Anonymous sonnet
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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Or tu gli cedi e so perché lo fai: perché mirando, in Paglia arderci il fuoco, scorgesti che nascea da viva rai. Quindi è che lasci il carro, i raggi, e'l luoco a Cintia e quanti preggi avesti mai e da longi la segui a puoco a puoco. |
Now you yield to her, and I know why: because, as in Straw fire burns there, you saw it was born of living rays. Thus you release the chariot, the rays, and your seat to Cynthia, and also all the honors ever you had, and from afar follow her slowly step by step. |