Poet/poetic source: Girolamo Casoni (c.1528-1592)
Poetic form/text type: madrigal
Music composer: Andrea Rota (c.1553-1597)
Music source: Il secondo libro de madrigali a 5 voci (Angelo Gardano press, Venice, 1589)
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In questo seno estinto son io candido fiore, già de' più lieti campi il prim'onore. Qui, da tema e sospetto, fui tanto chiuso e stretto ch'io mi morii di troppo grave arsura. O per me bella e nobil sepoltura. |
In this lifeless breast I am a pale flower, once once the chief honor of happier fields. Here, from fear and suspicion, I was so enclosed and bound that I died of too great a drought. O, for me, a fair and noble grave. |