Ne fero sdegno mai Donna (Luca Marenzio)
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- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-08). Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 148 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Parts and source available on IMSLP.
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Title: Ne fero sdegno mai Donna
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAAAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1587 in Il quarto libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 8
2nd published: 1590 in The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (Thomas Watson) – English contrafact, no. 21–22
3rd published: 1591 in Melodia Olympica (ed. Peter Philips), no. 63–64
4th published: 1594 in Madrigali a sei voci in un corpo ridotti, no. 30
5th published: 1605 in Nervi d'Orfeo (ed. Jacopo Graswinkel), no. 63
Description: A two-part madrigal. In Watson (1590), the first and second parts of this work are presented in reverse order.
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Né fero sdegno mai, Donna, mi mosse
Ancor da voi, né lontananza alcuna
Ne movrà mai! Mandami pur, Fortuna,
Per l’onde azzurre errando e per le rosse;
Se quante spume fan l’acque percosse
Dai remi nostri al sol e a la luna,
Tante nascesser Veneri, e ciascuna
di lor d’un novo Amor gravida fosse!
Talché, dovunque vò, tutte repente
Partorissero Amor l’onde ch’io frango,
E fosser le lor cune i pensier miei,
Non arderia più ch’arde questa mente,
Con tutto ciò talor mi doglio e piango,
Che non vi posso amar quanto verrei.