Mentr'io mirava fiso (Claudio Monteverdi)

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• CPDL #23202:  MUP

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MUP file is zipped.

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Title: Mentre io miravo fiso
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Venezia, 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 12

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Original text and translations

Italian text Mentre’io mirava fiso de la mia donna gli occhi ardenti e e belli, due vaghi spiritelli fiammeggiando n’usciro a l’improvviso e leggiadretti e snelli facendo mille scherzi e mille giri, mille fughe d’intorno e mille agguati dentro al seno adorno, mi trassero dal cor mille sospiri: onde, con dolci ed amorosi lai «Pietà, pietà», gridai.

English translation As I gazed intently in my mistress' passionate and beautiful eyes, two little pretty spirits burst out as suddenly as flames and, graceful and nimble, with a thousand cheers and flutters, a thousand turns and a thousand ambushes in her lovely bosom, drew a thousand sighs out of my heart: thence with sweet and loving laments 'Pity! pity!', I cried.

French translation Lorsque je regardais fixement les beaux et ardents yeux de mon amante, deux beux petits esprits en flamboyant en sortirent subitement et, gracieux et agiles, en faisant mille farces et mille tours, mille fugues et mille pièges tendant dans son sein charmant, tirèrent de mon cœur mille soupirs: dont, avec doux et amoureux laments, je criais « Pitié! Pitié! »