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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Strider faceva le zampogne a l'aura il Pastorel di Filli o per Ne era, se più pregiando quel che diede a Laura d'onesto amor perpetua lode e vera. Quando a l'alba Titon le chiome inaura a salutar la nuova Primavera fuor di fiorite siepi a d'arborscelli uscian cantando mille vaghi augelli. |
The Shepherd wailed his bagpipes in the wind, for Filli or [perhaps] for Ne, while more honoring he who gave to Laura virtuous love and perpetual and true praise1 When at dawn Tithonus gilds his locks to greet the new Spring, out of flowering hedges and shrubs, a thousand lovely birds come singing. |