by Folgore da San Geminiano (flourished 1309-1317)
Translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
Dicembre
Language: Italian (Italiano)
E di dicembre una città in piano: sale terrene, grandissimi fuochi, tappeti tesi, tavolier e giuochi, torticci accesi, star coi dadi in mano, e l'oste inebriato e catellano, e porci morti e finissimi cuochi, ghiotti morselli, ciascun bea e manrdóchi: le botti sian maggior, che San Galgàno. E siate ben vestiti e foderati di guarnacch'e tabarri e di mantelli e di cappucci fini e smisurati; e beffe far de' tristi cattivelli de' miseri dolenti sciagurati avari: non vogliate usar con elli.
Text Authorship:
- by Folgore da San Geminiano (flourished 1309-1317), "Dicembre", appears in Sonetti dei mesi, no. 13 [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) , "December", appears in The Early Italian Poets, in Of the Months, first published 1861 ; composed by Charles Edward Ives.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 81
December
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
Last, for December, houses on the plain,
Ground floors to live in, logs heap'd mountain high,
[And]1 carpets stretched and newest games to try,
[And]1 torches lit, and gifts from man to man,
(Your host, a drunkard and a Catalan;)
And whole dead pigs, and cunning cooks to ply
Each throat with tit-bits that [shall]1 satisfy;
And wine-butts of St. Galganu's brave span.
And be your coats well-lined and tightly bound,
And wrap yourselves in cloaks of strength and weight,
With gallant hoods to put your faces through.
And make your game of abject vagabond,
Abandoned miserable reprobate
Misers; don't let them have a chance with you.
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1 omitted by Ives.
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1 omitted by Ives.
Text Authorship:
- by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "December", appears in The Early Italian Poets, in Of the Months, first published 1861 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Folgore da San Geminiano (flourished 1309-1317), "Dicembre", appears in Sonetti dei mesi, no. 13
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "December", 1912-3, published 1963 [men's chorus in unison, eleven woodwinds], note: arranged for voice and piano c1920 and included in the collection 114 Songs, published 1921 [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 110