Give me a handful of roses and lilies | Give me a handful of roses and lilies

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by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Count of Scandiano (1434 - 1494)

Translation © by Anne Evans

Datime a piena mano e rose e zigli

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Datime a piena mano e rose e zigli,
Spargeti intorno a me viole e fiori,
Ciascun che meco pianse e mei dolori,
Di mia leticia meco il frutto pigli.

Datime e fiori e candidi e vermigli:
Confano a questo giorno 
e bei colori; 
Spargeti intorno d'amorosi odori,
Chè il loco a la mia voglia se assumigli.
Perdon m'ha datto et hami dato pace

La dolce mia nemica, e vuol ch'io campi.
Lei che sol di pietà se pregia e vanta.
Non vi maravigliati
perch'io avampi,
Chè maraviglia è più che non se sface
il cor in tutto d'alegreza tanta.

Text Authorship:

by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Count of Scandiano (1434 - 1494) [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 Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892 - 1965), "Datime a piena mano e rose e zigli", 1935. [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Anne Evans) , title 1: "Give me a handful of roses and lilies", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 99

Give me a handful of roses and lilies

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Give me a handful of roses and lilies,
Scatter violets and flowers around me 
Each one brings  tears and sadness to me
but holds the fruit of my happiness. 

Give me pure white and scarlet flowers..
they make this day with
their beautiful colours...
Scatter around the perfume of love
that the madness of my desire  takes on.
It has pardoned me and given me peace

My enemy is sweet, but I want to live 
She only prays and praises out of pity 
Is it any wonder to you
that I flare up in temper
All the more  wonder that my heart
in all its pleasure, is not broken.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Matteo Maria Boiardo, Count of Scandiano (1434 - 1494)
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This text was added to the website: 2006-10-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 109