Sfogava con le stelle (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Editor: John Kilpatrick (added 2003-04-08).   Score information: A4, 16 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: There's a typographical error in the PDF; it's infermo d’amore (lovesick), not inferno d’amore ("hell of love??"). See the discussion page for full description.

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Title: Sfogava con le stelle
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Ottavio Rinuccini

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
a cappella Published: Il quarto libro de madrigali, Venice, 1603

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• English poetical translations of the Fourth Book of Monteverdi's Madrigals (Quarto libro dei madrigali).

Original text and translations

Italian text Sfogava con le stelle un infermo d’amore sotto notturno cielo il suo dolore. E dicea fisso in loro: «O imagini belle de l’idol mio ch’adoro, sì com’a me mostrate mentre così splendete la sua rara beltate, così mostraste a lei i vivi ardori miei: la fareste col vostr’aureo sembiante pietosa sì come me fate amante».

English translation A lovesick was venting to the stars his grief, under the night sky. And staring at them he said: "O beautiful images of my idol whom I adore, just as you are showing me her rare beauty while you sparkle so well, so also demonstrate to her my living ardour: by your golden appearance you would make her compassionate, just as you make me loving."

Portuguese translation by Carlos Augusto P. Mourão

Desafogava com as estrelas
um enfermo de amor,
sob o noturno céu, a sua dor.
E dizia fitando-as:
«Oh imagens belas
da idolatrada minha que adoro,
assim como a mim mostrais,
quando assim resplandeceis,
a rara beleza dela,
assim também mostrai a ela
meus vívidos ardores:
fareis dela, com vosso dourado semblante,
piedosa, assim como me fazeis amante».