Solo e pensoso (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2011-03-24)  CPDL #23160:     

Editor: Joachim Thomas (submitted 2011-02-17).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Solo e pensoso
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca , RVF XXXV

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

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Italian text Solo et pensoso i piú deserti campi vo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti, et gli occhi porto per fuggire intenti ove vestigio human l’arena stampi. Altro schermo non trovo che mi scampi dal manifesto accorger de le genti, perché negli atti d’alegrezza spenti di fuor si legge com’io dentro avampi: sì ch’io mi credo omai che monti et piagge et fiumi et selve sappian di che tempre sia la mia vita, ch’è celata altrui. Ma pur sí aspre vie né sí selvagge cercar non so ch’Amor non venga sempre ragionando con meco, et io co’llui.

English translation Alone and thoughtful, the emptiest fields I'm measuring with my slow, tardy steps, and with my eyes I'm running away where not a single footstep is printed in the sand. I can not find another possible shelter to hide me from everybody's awareness, because in all my acts, so lacking in joy, it's easy to see, outside, how I'm burning inside; therefore, I believe that all these mountains and beaches and rivers and woods now know very well how cruel is my life, which is hidden to men. But I can not find paths wild and rough enough to force Love not to walk on my side: He keeps on speaking with me, and I with him.