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Ma tu, piú che mai dura, favilla di pietà non senti ancora; anzi t'inaspri piú, quanto piú prego. Cosí senza parlar dunque m'ascolti? A chi parlo, infelice? a un muto marmo? S'altro non mi vuoi dir, dimmi almen: «Mori!» e morir mi vedrai. Questa è ben, empio Amor, miseria estrema, che sí rigida ninfa [e del mio fin sí vaga, perché grazia di lei non sia la morte mia, morte mi neghi,]1 [né]2 mi risponda, e l'armi d'una sola sdegnosa e cruda voce sdegni di proferire al mio morir.
1 omitted by Monteverdi.
2 Monteverdi: "non"
Text Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 347-362. [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 Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Ma tu, piú che mai dura", published 1605 [ vocal quintet ], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 11, madrigal
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ma tu, piú che mai dura", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , "Mas tú, severa más que nunca", copyright © 2015, (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.
Line count: 16
Word count: 91
Mas tú, severa más que nunca, una chispa de piedad no sientes ya; más te irritas cuanto más ruego. ¿De modo que me escuchas y no me hablas? ¿A quién habla este infeliz? ¿A un mudo mármol? Si otra cosa no quieres decir, dime al menos: “¡Muere!” y morir me verás. En verdad, impío Amor, es esta una extrema infelicidad, que tan inflexible ninfa, tan equívoca en cuanto a mi final, pues de ella es la gracia que mi muerte no sea, la muerte me niega, ni me responde, y el arma de su voz desdeñosa y cruel desprecia pronunciarse por mi muerte.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2015 by Javier Pablo Sotelo, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 347-362.
This text was added to the website: 2015-04-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 103