Diana was not more pleasing to her lover

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by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)

Translation © by A. S. Kline

Non al suo amante piú Dïana piacque

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Non al suo amante piú Dïana piacque,
quando per tal ventura tutta ignuda
la vide in mezzo de le gelide acque,

ch'a me la pastorella alpestra et cruda
posta a bagnar un leggiadretto velo,
ch'a l'aura il vago et biondo capel chiuda,

tal che mi fece, or quand'egli arde 'l cielo,
tutto tremar d'un amoroso gielo.

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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. 52 [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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), no title, copyright © 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Petrarca - Chopin: Tre Madrigali, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Non al suo amante", JHW XXXII/5 (2004), first performed 2004 [ medium voice, viola, and harp ], from Zwei Petrarca-Lieder, no. 2, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]

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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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Diana was not more pleasing to her lover

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Diana was not more pleasing to her lover,
when by chance he saw her all naked
in the midst of icy waters,

than, to me, the fresh mountain shepherdess,
set there to wash a graceful veil,
that ties her vagrant blonde hair from the breeze,

so that she makes me, now that the heavens burn,
tremble, wholly, with the chill of love.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 52
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This text was added to the website: 2015-03-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 62