by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)
Ah! dolente partita!
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): FRE
Ah! dolente partita! ah, fin de la mia vita! da te parto e non moro? E pur i' provo la pena de la morte e sento nel partire un vivace morire, che dà vita al dolore per far che moia immortalmente il core.
Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 498-505 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Ah! dolente partita!", published 1603 [ vocal quintet], from Libro IV de madrigali, no. 1, madrigal [text verified 1 time]
- by Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596), "Ah, dolente partita", published 1595 [five-part chorus], from Undecimo Libro de Madrigali a cinque voci [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Ah ! départ douloureux !", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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