Ergo ne vis abire / Deggio dunque partire (Luca Marenzio)
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- CPDL #234:
- Editor: Jens Peter Jacobsen (submitted 1998-12-28). Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: originally madrigal, sacred text added
General Information
Title: Ergo ne vis abire / Deggio dunque partire
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Madrigal
Languages: Latin, Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Coppini edition (1607)
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Ergo ne vis abire, Filli,
& linquere parentem tuam?
IESU ò care Fili, quid me linquis
In tam gravi dolore?
Ah, patiere mortem & mortem Crucis.
Mors amara nimis, ò mors amara nimis!
Italian text
Deggio dunque partire lasso
Dal mio bel sol che mi da vita?
Ohimè che mi consola e chi m’aita
In cosi gran martire?
Ahi, che partir pur deggio la mia fortuna
Hor che mi può far peggio.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
(of Latin text)
So, Phyllis, you will not go away
and leave your parent?
Jesus, dear Son, why do you abandon me
in such grievous pain?
Ah, to suffer death, death on the cross.
Most bitter of deaths, of deaths most bitter!
(of Italian text)
Must I then depart in misery
from the beautiful sun which gives me life?
Alas, what can console me and who will succour me
when I am in such agony?
Alas, now that I must part from my treasure,
what worse fate can befall me?