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by Fabrizio degl'Atti

Non è di gentil core chi non arde
 (Sung text for setting by C. Monteverdi)
 Matches base text
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Non è di gentil core
chi non arde d'amore. 
Ma voi, che del mio cor l'anima sete,
e nel foco d'amor lieta vivete,
sete di gentil core, 
perché ardete d'amore.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Non è di gentil core chi non arde", published 1619 [ chorus ], from Libro VII de madrigali, no. 2, madrigal

Text Authorship:

  • by Fabrizio degl'Atti

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

  • ENG English (unknown or anonymous translator) , "His heart is not refined"
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (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: 6
Word count: 30

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