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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Crud'Amarilli, che col nom'ancora
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE SPA
[Crud'Amarilli, che col nom'ancora]1
D'amar, ahi lasso! amaramente insegni,
Amarilli, del candido ligustro
Più candida [più]2 bella,
Ma [de l'àspido]3 sordo 
E più [sorda più fèra]4 e più fugace,
Poi che col dir t'offendo,
i' mi morrò tacendo. 

Ma grideran per me le piagge e i monti
E questa selva, a cui 
Sì spesso li tuo bel nome
Di risonar insegno. 
Per me piangendo i fonti
E mormorando i venti,
Diranno i miei lamenti;
[Parlerà nel mie volto
La pietate e 'l dolore; 
E se fia muta ogn'altra cosa, al fine
Parlerà il mio morire, 
E ti dirà la morte il mio martire]5.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   S. d'India •   L. Marenzio •   C. Monteverdi •   G. Wert 

S. d'India sets stanza 1
C. Monteverdi sets stanza 1
L. Marenzio sets stanza 1

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1 Marenzio, Monteverdi: "Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora"
2 Marenzio: "e più"
3 Marenzio: "dell'aspido"
4 Marenzio: "fèra"
5 omitted by de Wert

Text Authorship:

  • by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), no title, appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act I, scene 2, lines 272-279 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Sigismondo d'India (1582? - 1629?), "Crud'Amarilli", 1607, stanza 1, from Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Luca Marenzio (c1553 - 1599), "Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora", stanza 1 [ chorus ], from Eighth Book of Madrigals, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora", published 1605, stanza 1 [  vocal quintet ], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 1, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Benedetto Pallavicino (1551 - 1601), "Crud'Amarilli", 1600, from Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596), "Crud'Amarilli, che col nom'ancora" [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Cruelle Amaryllis, qui par ton nom même", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , "Cruel Amarilis que con tu nombre", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 109

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