Poet/poetic source: Giovanni Battista Strozzi il vecchio (1505-1571)
Poetic form/text type: madrigal
Music composer: Alessandro Striggio (c.1536-1592)
Music source: Il secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci (Scotto press, Venice, 1571)
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Dolce ritorna amor, cortese e pio nell' angelico viso, ond'a gran torto sdegno, o sdegno rio, t'ha sì per me diviso. E deh teco, signor, l'usato riso o il bel sguardo rimena che l'aspra pena, ch'io sostengo a morte, se pur vita quest'è non mi trasporte. |
Sweet love, return, gentle and pious, to that angelic face, where, by a great wrong, contempt, o cruel contempt, has so divided me from you. And alas with you, Sir, bring back your accustomed smile and your lovely gaze, so that the harsh pain that I endure unto death, if this is indeed life, does not carry me away. |