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by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)

Li angeli electi et l’anime beate
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
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Li angeli electi et l’anime beate
cittadine del cielo, il primo giorno
che madonna passò, le fur intorno
piene di meraviglia et di pietate.

"Che luce è questa, et qual nova beltate?
- dicean tra lor - perch’abito sí adorno
dal mondo errante a quest’alto soggiorno
non salí mai in tutta questa etate".

Ella, contenta aver cangiato albergo,
si paragona pur coi piú perfecti,
et parte ad or ad or si volge a tergo,

mirando s’io la seguo, et par ch’aspecti:
ond’io voglie et pensier’ tutti al ciel ergo
perch’i’ l’odo pregar pur ch’i’ m’affretti.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 346 [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):

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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) , no title, written 1860 ; composed by Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov.
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