Poet/poetic source: Valerio Marcellini, Delle Rime di Diversi Nobili Poeti Toscani (1565)
Poetic form/text type: None
Music composer: Luca Marenzio (c.1553-1599)
Music source: Il quarto libro de madrigali acinque voci (Vincenzi e Amadino press, Venice, 1584)
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Sapete amanti perché ignudo sia, perché fanciullo, e perché cieco Amore? perché mentre l'angelica armonia della mia bella Donna intento udia, per gran dolcezza uscito di se fuore: perdé la veste, il senno, gli occhi e'l core. |
Lovers: Do you know why Cupid would be nude, why he is a youth and why he is blind? Because while he raptly listened to the angelic harmony of my lovely lady, from its very sweetness he went mad: He lost his garb, his wits, his eyes and his heart. |