Poet/poetic source: Anonymous poet
Poetic form/text type: sonnet
Music composer: Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605)
Music source: Madrigali a 5 voci, libro primo (Angelo Gardano press, Venice, 1589)
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Udisti al centro mai stridi più chiari? Spirto sepolto son, fra stelle smorte, che chiam'infausto il mondo e i cieli amari. Dunque a tanto ulular tremi la sorte, spezzins'i scogli e perdan l'onda i mari, e'l ciel cada, arda Abisso e mora morte. |
Have you ever heard clearer shrieks in the depths? I am an entombed spirit, amongst wan stars, who calls the world accurs'd and the heavens bitter. Therefore, to such howling, may fate tremble, let the reefs break and the seas forsake their waves, and the sky fall, the Abyss burn, and may death die. |