La rete fu di queste fila d'oro (Luca Marenzio)

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•  Posted on 2024-09-28(Posted 2024-09-28)  CPDL #82178:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 112 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2018-11-08)  CPDL #51745:         

Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2018-11-08).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 442 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: La rete fu di queste filia d'oro
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1585 in Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 6
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Original text and translations

Italian text La rete fu di queste fila d'oro in che 'l mio pensier vago intricò l'ale, e questi cigli l'arco, e 'l guardo strale, e 'l feritor questi begl'occhi forò. Io son ferito, io son prigion per loro, la piaga in mezzo il core aspra e mortale, la prigion forte e pur in tanto male, e chi ferimmi e chi mi prese adoro. Per la dolce cagion del languir mio o del morir, se potrà tanto il duolo, languendo godo, e di morir disio; purché ella, non sapendo il piacer ch'io del languir m'abbia o del morir, d'un solo sospir mi degni o d'altro affetto pio.

English translation The net was made of these golden threads in which my roving thoughts tangled their wings, and these eyebrows the bow, and the glance the arrow, and these lovely eyes the wounder that pierced. I am wounded: I am a prisoner for them, the wound deep in my heart, cruel and fatal, the prison strong, and yet despite such pain, the one who struck me and captured me: I adore. For the sweet cause of my languor and my death, if grief shall be so great, in languishing I take delight, and I long to die; as long as she, not knowing the pleasure I find in languishing or in death, deigns to grant me but a single sigh, or other charitable affection. Translation by Allen Garvin