Ecco piegando (Claudio Monteverdi)
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CPDL #22030: Capella 5
- Editor: Beate Windisch (submitted 2010-07-29). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 89 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: transposition: minor third lower than the original
Latin text edited
General Information
Title: Te, Jesu Christe
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Madrigal
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1607
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Te, Jesu Christe, liberator meus,
reverenter adoro.
Vulneratus es, mihi ut des vitam
Clavi tibi foderunt pedes,
manus amabiles, feriere te
cuspide saeva teterrimi ministri,
impie ausi sunt, ferire pectus.
Sic mira pietate redimisti me, Christe,
Tua morte. Tu vero vulnera
cor meum durum telo amoris tui.
Italian text
Ecco piegando le genocchie a terra
Riverente t’adoro.
E ti chieggio perdon ma non già vita.
Ecco li strali e l’arco
Ma non ferir già tu gli occhi o le mani
Colpevoli ministri d’innocente voler;
Ferisci il petto, ferisci questo mostro
di pietade e d’amor aspro nemico,
ferisci questo cor che ti fu crudo.
Eccoti il petto ignudo!
English translation by Mick Swithinbank
Jesus Christ, my redeemer,
I worship you with reverence.
You were wounded to give me life,
The nails pierced your feet
And your dear hands; the most loathsome minions
Had the audacity to strike you with a cruel spear,
To wound your breast.
Thus in your wondrous mercy you redeemed me, Christ,
By your death. Wound my hard heart
With the true spear of your love.
Note: this is a translation of the Latin, not the Italian text.