by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)
O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia
Language: Italian (Italiano)
O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia, se vedessi qui dentro come sta il cor di questa che chiami crudelissima Amarilli, so ben che tu di lei quella pietà, che da lei chiedi, avresti. Oh anime in amor troppo infelici! che giova a te, cor mio, l'esser amato? che giova a me l'aver sí caro amante? Perché, crudo destino, ne disunisci tu, s'Amor ne strigne? e tu, perché ne strigni, se ne parte il destin, perfido Amore?
Authorship:
- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 4, lines 506-518. [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 Luca Marenzio (c1553 - 1599), "O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia" [chorus] [text verified 1 time]
- by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia", published 1605 [ vocal quintet], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 2, madrigal [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Ô Myrtil, Myrtil, mon âme", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , title 1: "Oh, Mirtillo, Mirtillo, alma mía", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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