by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
Ite Caldi sospiri See original
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
Ite, caldi sospiri, al freddo core,
rompete il ghiaccio che Pietà contende,
et se prego mortale al ciel s’intende,
morte o mercé sia fine al mio dolore.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Robert Jones (flourished 1597-1615), "Ite Caldi sospiri", 1609, stanza 1 [ soprano with lute and bass viol ], from A Musical Dreame or Fourth Booke of Ayres, no. 20, Confirmed with A Musicall Dreame, or the Fourth Book of Ayres by Robert Jones. Imprinted by John Windet, and are to be sold by Simon Waterson, in Powles Church-yeard at the Signe of the Crowne, London 1609.
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Text Authorship:
- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 153
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- ENG English (Iain Sneddon) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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