by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
Perch'al viso d'Amor portava insegna
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
Perch'al viso d'Amor portava insegna, mosse una pellegrina il mio cor vano, ch'ogni altra mi parea d'onor men degna. Et lei seguendo su per l'erbe verdi, udí' dir alta voce di lontano: Ahi, quanti passi per la selva perdi! Allor mi strinsi a l'ombra d'un bel faggio, tutto pensoso; et rimirando intorno, vidi assai periglioso il mio vïaggio; et tornai indietro quasi a mezzo 'l giorno.
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Text Authorship:
- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 54 [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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Perch'al viso d'Amor portava insegna", copyright © 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Petrarca - Chopin: Tre Madrigali, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Perch'al viso d'amor", 1951/2 [ soprano, tenor, and SATB chorus a cappella ], from Vier Canzonen nach Texten von Petrarca, no. 3, Bärenreiter [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 66