Piangeti mecho amanti (Niccoló Patavino)

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• (Posted 2025-06-23)  CPDL #85568:        (Diplomatic score) (Practical score)

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2025-06-23).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 127 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: A double edition: diplomatic score in mensural notation and practical score.

General Information

Title: Piangeti mecho amanti
Composer: Niccoló Patavino
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1505 in Frottole libro 2 (Petrucci, Venice), no. 44
Description: 

Original text and translations

Italian text Piangeti mecho amanti   Lo extremo mio dolore   Chio pato a tutte lhore   Troppo amando. Una che a posto in bando    amore e crudeltade    fe io li chisdo pietade    La fasconde Nemai la me risponde    acioche in tutto io mora    ma el cor che foco ognhora    Mi tien vivo Che un che fia del cor privo    La morte non loffende    ma el morir lo sospende    In tal via Hai cruda sorte e ria    commo esser po chio segua    una che mi delegua    Ne mi voglia Almen me amazi o toglia    tanto dolor me dosso    per che morir non posso    Ne campare Amor vogli spirare    in lei qualche dolceza    acioche in tenereza    La si mova Poi che ha facto la prova    Di me son gia tant anni    tempo che ali mei danni    Dia ristoro Che io possa dir sio moro    felice fia colei    che a tanti affanni mei    De rioso E felice el pietoso    cor che me porse aita    e mi sostenne in vita    Per amarlo

English translation Weep for me, lovers, I suffer extreme pain at all hours from loving too much. I am in banishment decreed by love and by cruelty. I ask for mercy but love hides her. She never answers me because of that I die. But my heart that ever burns keeps me alive. The one who is deprived of a heart is not harm him by death. Dying only sustain him on his path. I have a cruel, cruel fate as I follow one who despises me and do not want me At least love me. Or take all this pain from me as I can neither die nor live. Love wants to breathe in her sweetness as she moves in tenderness. Since she has already tested me for so many years it is time that to give reliefe to al my suffering I can tell that when I am dead she will be happy, who laughts at my many sorrows. And happy is the merciful heart that gave me help and sustained me to love in life.