Quivi sospiri pianti (Luzzasco Luzzaschi)

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Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2016-07-31).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 284 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Quivi sospiri pianti
Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Lyricist: Dante Alighieri

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1576

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Quivi sospiri pianti et alti guai,
Rissonavan per l'aer senza stelle,
Perch' io al cominciar ne lagrimai,
Diverse lingue horribili favelle,
Parole di dolore accenti d'ira,
Voci alte et fioche et suon di man con elle.
 

English.png English translation

Their sighs, lamentations and loud wailings
 resounded through the starless air,
 so that at first it made me weep;
 Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements,
 words of pain, tones of anger,
 voices shrill and faint, and beating hands,

 (all went to make a tumult that will whirl
 forever through that turbid, timeless air,
 like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls.)
Canto III, lines 22-30.