De' cocenti sospir (Vincenzo Ruffo)

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• (Posted 2023-06-07)  CPDL #74078:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-06-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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General Information

Title: De' cocenti sospir
Composer: Vincenzo Ruffo
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1556 in Il primo libro di madregali cromatici
Description: 

Original text and translations

Italian text De' cocenti sospir l'aria accendea dovunque andava il Saracin dolente. Ecco, per la pietà che gli n'avea, da' cavi sassi rispondea sovente. O feminile ingegno, egli dicea come ti volgi e muti facilmente, contrario oggetto proprio della fede! O miser infelice ch'in te crede!

English translation Wherever that afflicted paynim goes, He fills the kindling air with sighs that burn; And Echo oft, for pity of his woes, With him from hollow rock is heard to mourn: O female mind! how lightly ebbs and flows Your fickle mood, he cries, aye prone to turn! Object most opposite to kindly faith! Lost, wretched man, who trusts you to his scathe! Translation by William Rose