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by Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola (1452 - 1498)

Infelix ego
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  ENG FIN
Infelix ego, 	
omnium auxilio destitutus
qui caelum terramque offendi.
Quo ibo? Quo me vertam?	
Ad quem fugiam?	
Quis mei miserebitur?
Ad caelum oculos levare non audeo
Quia ei graviter peccavi.
In terra refugum non invenio 	
quia ei scandalum fui.	
Quid igitur faciam? 
Desperabo? Absit. 	
Misericors est Deus, 	
pius est Salvator meus.
Solus igitur Deus refugium meum:
Ipse non despiciet opus suum 
non repellet imaginem suam.	

Ad te igitur piissime Deus,
Tristis ac moerens venio,
Quoniam tu solus spes mea,
Tu solus refugium meum.	
Quid autem dicam tibi	
Cum oculos levare non audeam?
Verba doloris effundam,
Misericordiam tuam implorabo et dicam:
"Miserere mei, Deus, secundum
magnam misericordiam tuam!"

Text Authorship:

  • by Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola (1452 - 1498) [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 William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623), "Infelix ego" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Adriaan Willaert (c1490 - 1562), "Infelix ego" [ vocal sextet a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Benjamin Kasiel Pixley) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Voi minua onnetonta", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-28
Line count: 27
Word count: 107

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