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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Io disleale?
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Io disleale? ah cruda,
Vol negate la fede. 
Per non mi dar mercede.
Se non basta li languire
Provatemi al morire,
E se ciò ricusate. 
Perchè la fè negate 
Che provar non volete?
O provate, o credete.

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 Benedetto Pallavicino (1551 - 1601), "Io disleale?", 1600, from Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 11. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 37

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