Nessun visse già mai più di me lieto
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7. Nesun visse già mai piú di me lieto,
nesun vive piú tristo et giorni et notti;
et doppiando 'l dolor, doppia lo stile
che trae del cor sí lagrimose rime.
Vissi di speme, or vivo pur di pianto,
né contra Morte spero altro che Morte.
Note: the text above is taken from stanza 7 of the original text.
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Set to music by Spirito l'Hoste da Reggio (c1510 - c1575), "Nessun visse già mai più di me lieto", stanza 7 [ chorus ], madrigal
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- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
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No one alive has ever been so happy,
no one lives more sadly these days and nights:
and he doubles the grief, in a double style
who draws from the heart such sad rhyme.
I lived on hope, now I live by weeping,
and have no hope against Death, but Death.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanza 7 of the original text.
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