Anzi via più che del disir (Claudio Merulo)

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  • (Posted 2023-01-29)  CPDL #72431:        (LilyPond)
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-01-29).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 67 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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General Information

Title: Anzi via più che del disir
Composer: Claudio Merulo
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto
Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1580 in Il primo libro de madrigali à 3 voci (Venice: Angelo Gardano press) (no.7)
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Anzi via più che del disir, mi deggio
di me doler, che sì gli apersi il seno;
onde cacciata ha la ragion di seggio,
et ogni mio poter può di lui meno.
Quel mi trasporta ognior di male in peggio,
né lo posso frenar, che non ha freno:
e mi fa certa che mi mena a morte,
perch’aspettando il mal noccia più forte.

English.png English translation

Yea; rather of myself should I complain,
Than the desire, to which I bared my breast
Whereby was Reason hunted from her reign,
And all my powers by stronger force opprest.
Thus borne from bad to worse, without a rein,
I cannot the unbridled beast arrest;
Who makes me see I to destruction haste,
That I more bitterness in death may taste.

Translation by William Stewart Rose