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by Giambattista Marino (1569 - 1625)

Presso un fiume tranquillo
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE
     Presso un fiume tranquillo
disse a Filena Eurillo:
-- Quante son [queste arene]1,
tante son le mie pene;
e quante son [quell'onde]2,
[tante ho]3 per te nel cor piaghe profonde. --

     Rispose, d'amor piena,
ad Eurillo Filena:
-- Quante la terra ha foglie,
tante son le mie doglie;
e quante il cielo ha stelle,
[tante ho]3 per te nel cor vive fiammelle.

     -- Dunque -- con lieto core
soggiunse indi il pastore, --
[quanti ha]4 l'aria augelletti
[sieno i]5 nostri diletti,
e [quante hai]6 tu bellezze
[tante]7 in noi versi Amor care dolcezze.

     -- Sí, sí -- con voglie accese
[la ninfa allor]8 riprese; --
facciam, concordi amanti,
pari le gioie ai pianti,
a le guerre le paci:
se fûr mille i martír, sien mille i baci.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Monteverdi •   G. Priuli 

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Confirmed with Giambattista Marino, Poesie Varie a cura di Benedetto Croce, Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1913.

1 Priuli: "quest'arene"
2 Monteverdi: "quelle onde"; Priulu: "quest'onde"
3 Priuli: "tant'ho"
4 Priuli: "quant'ha"
5 Priuli: "sien' i"
6 Priuli: "quant'hai"
7 Priuli: "tant'"
8 Monteverdi: "l'un e l'altro"; Priuli: "la ninfa all'hor"

Text Authorship:

  • by Giambattista Marino (1569 - 1625), "I numeri amorosi" [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), "Presso un fiume tranquillo", published 1614, from Libro VI de madrigali, no. 10, dialogo a 7 concertato
        Score: IMSLP [external link]  [sung text checked 2 times]
  • by Giovanni Priuli (1575?80 - 1626), "Presso un fiume tranquillo"
        Score: IMSLP [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au bord d'un fleuve tranquille", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-05-06
Line count: 24
Word count: 130

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