Vaghi pensier (Baldassare Donato)

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  • (Posted 2025-08-27)  CPDL #86532:       
Editor: Leonardo Lollini (submitted 2025-08-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 148 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Original pitch and durations. Modern clefs.

General Information

Title: Vaghi pensier
Composer: Baldassare Donato
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1550 in Le Napollitane et alcuni Madrigali a quatro voci (Baldassare Donato), no. 1
    2nd published: 1550 in Il primo libro di canzon villanesche (Baldassare Donato), no. 24
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Vaghi pensier’ che cosí passo passo
Scorto m’havete a ragionar tant’alto,
Vedete che madonna ha ’l cor di smalto,
Sí forte ch’io per me dentro nol passo.
Ella non degna di mirar sí basso
Che di nostre parole
Curi, ché ’l ciel non vuole,
Al qual pur contrastando i’ son già lasso:
Onde, come nel cor m’induro e n’aspro,
Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro.
Francesco Petrarca; Canzoniere LXX, 21-30

English.png English translation

Wandering thoughts, that step by step
have led me to such high poetry,
see how my lady's heart is cold enamel,
so hardened that I cannot pass inside.
She does not deign to gaze so low
as to care for our words
against heaven's wishes,
so that I'm already tired of the struggle:
and as my heart becomes hard and rough,
so I would wish my speech to be rougher.
Translation by A.S.Kline