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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Quell'augellin che canta
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FRE
Quell'augellin che canta 
sì dolcemente e lascivetto vola
[ora dall'abete]1 al faggio,
ed or dal faggio al mirto,
s'avesse umano spirto, 
direbbe: "Ardo d'amore, ardo d'amore."
Ma ben arde nel core
[e parla in sua favella, 
sì che l'intende il suo dolce desio.
Ed odi a punto, Silvio,
il suo dolce desio 
che gli risponde: "Ardo d'amore anch'io."]2

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Monteverdi 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Monteverdi: "or da l'abete"
2 Monteverdi:
e chiam'il suo desio 
che li rispond': «Ardo d'amor anch'io.» 
Che sii tu benedetto,
amoroso, gentil, vago augelletto.

Text Authorship:

  • by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act I, Scene 1, lines 175-186 [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):

  • by Sigismondo d'India (1582? - 1629?), "Quell'augellin che canta", 1615, from Il Terzo Libro de Madrigali, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Quell'augellin che canta", published 1603 [  vocal quintet ], from Libro IV de madrigali, no. 14, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ce petit oiseau qui chante", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 60

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