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: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1556 in Il primo libro di madregali cromatici
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Original text and translations

Italian.png 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.png 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