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Luci serene e chiare, Voi m'incendete, voi, ma [prova il]1 core Nell'incendio diletto, non dolore. Dolci parole e care, Voi mi ferite, voi, ma prova il petto Non dolor [nella]2 piaga, ma diletto. O miracol d'Amore! Alma [che è]3 tutta foco e tutta [sangue]4 Si [strugge e]5 non si duol, [more e]6 non langue.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Adolphe, Monteverdi: "prov'il", passim.
2 Adolphe, Monteverdi: "ne la"
3 Adolphe, Monteverdi: "ch'è"
4 Monteverdi: "sange"
5 Monteverdi: "strugg'e"
6 Adolphe: "mor' e"; Monteverdi: "muor e"
Authorship:
- by Ridolfo Arlotti (1546 - 1613), no title, written 1603 [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 Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955), "Luci serene e chiare", first performed 2001 [soprano and piano], from A Thousand Years of Love, no. 4. [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613), "Luci serene e chiare", published 1596. [SSATB chorus a cappella] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Luci serene e chiare", published 1603 [vocal quintet], from Libro IV de madrigali, no. 8, madrigal [ sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Morten Lauridsen.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bruce Adolphe) , "Eyes serene and clear", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Yeux sereins et clairs", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Heitere, funkelnde Augen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Alberto Pedrotti
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 54
Heitere, funkelnde Augen, ihr entfacht ein Feuer in mir, ihr, doch mein Herz empfindet Freud’ in diesem Feuer, keinen Schmerz. Süße, liebe Worte, ihr verwundet mich, ihr, doch die Brust empfindet Freud' an dieser Wunde, keinen Schmerz. O Wunder der Liebe! Die Seele, die blutet und brennt, verzehrt sich, ohne zu leiden, stirbt, ohne zu siechen.
Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Ridolfo Arlotti (1546 - 1613), no title, written 1603
This text was added to the website: 2015-12-11
Line count: 9
Word count: 56