Udite, lagrimosi spirti d'Averno (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2023-01-31)  CPDL #72463:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-01-31).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 67 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2018-11-24)  CPDL #52357:         

Editor: Annie Pousse (submitted 2018-11-24).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 253 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Udite, lagrimosi spirti d'Averno
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1594 in Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 5
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Original text and translations

Italian text Udite, lagrimosi Spirti d'Averno, udite nova sorte di pena e di tormento, mirate crudo affetto in sembiante pietoso: la mia Donna crudel più dell'inferno, perché una sola morte non può far sazia la sua ingorda voglia, e la mia vita è quasi una perpetua morte. Mi comanda ch'io viva, perché la vita mia di mille morti il dì ricetto sia.

English translation Ye tortur'd spirits, hear, that in Avernus' doleful regions dwell, hear a new torment I endure; See under pity's mask conceal'd A horrid kind of love. She I adore loads me with greater sufferings still than yours, because a single death alone is far too scant to glut her fell revenge. My life is only a perpetual death; She bids me live, more fierceness to display, and make me die a thousand times a day! Translation by Anonymous (1809 translation of Il pastor fido into blank verse)