[Quanto ha]1 di dolce amore,
perché [sempre io]2 vi baci,
o dolcissime rose,
in voi tutto ripose;
deh, deh s'io potessi 
ai vostri dolci baci
la mia vita finire,
o che dolce morire!

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¹ Monteverdi: "Quant'ha"
² Monteverdi: "sempr'io"

Text Authorship:

• by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612) [author's text not yet checked 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 Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613), "Quanto ha di dolce amore", published 1594 [chorus], madrigal for five voices [
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• by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Baci soavi e cari" [chorus], from Libro I de madrigali, no. 5, madrigal.
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Alles an Süße hat Amor", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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