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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Ma tu, piú che mai dura
 (Sung text for setting by C. Monteverdi)
 See original
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE SPA
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
 ... 
non mi risponda, e l'armi
d'una sola sdegnosa e cruda voce
sdegni di proferire
al mio morir.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Ma tu, piú che mai dura", published 1605 [  vocal quintet ], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 11, madrigal

Text Authorship:

  • by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 347-362.

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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: 89

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