Ahi, come a un vago Sol cortese giro (Alessandro Striggio)

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• (Posted 2023-07-02)  CPDL #74462:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2023-07-02).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 281 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Ahi, come a un vago Sol cortese giro
Composer: Alessandro Striggio
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1596 in Il quarto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 4
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Original text and translations

Italian text Ahi, come a un vago Sol cortese giro, Di duo begli occhi, ond'io Soffersi il primo, e dolce stral d'Amore, Pien d'un novo desio, Sì pronto à sospirar torna il mio core, Lasso non val ascondersi. Ch'omai Conosco i segni, che'l mio cor m'addita De l'antica ferita: Et è gran tempo pur ch'io la saldai: Ah, che piaga d'Amor non sana mai. Giovanni Battista Guarini, Rime (1599), Madrigale 110, p. 60

Engish translation Alas, just as it was from the lovely single gentle glance Of two beautiful eyes that I Suffered my first sweet arrow of love, Now, full of a new desire, My heart is once again ready to sigh! Wretch, there is no point in taking cover, for I know the signs that my heart points out Of the ancient wound, And it has been a long time since I healed it: Als, for love's wound never heals. Translation by Massimo Ossi in "Divining the Oracle", 2003, p. 69