Poet/poetic source: Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612)
Poetic form/text type: madrigal
Music composer: Philippe de Monte (1521-1603)
Music source: Il quintodecimo libro de madrigali a5 voci (Gardano press, Venice, 1592)
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Baciai ma che mi valse attender frutto d'amorosa dolcezza, se sparsi il seme in arida bellezza? Son dolcissimi i baci a chi ne prende quel fin che se n'attende; ma s'altro non s'accoglie, tormenti sono a l'amorose voglie. |
I kissed, but what avails awaiting the fruit of loving sweetness, if I scattered the seed in a beautiful desert? Kisses are the sweetest to whoever takes from them the end that is expected of them; but if nothing is received, they are torments for amorous desires. |