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by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)

Ite, caldi sospiri, al freddo core
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Ite, caldi sospiri, al freddo core,
rompete il ghiaccio che Pietà contende,
et se prego mortale al ciel s’intende,
morte o mercé sia fine al mio dolore.

5Ite, dolci penser’, parlando fore
di quello ove ’l bel guardo non s’estende:
se pur sua asprezza o mia stella n’offende,
sarem fuor di speranza et fuor d’errore.

Dir se pò ben per voi, non forse a pieno,
che ’l nostro stato è inquïeto et fosco,
sí come ’l suo pacifico et sereno.

Gite securi omai, ch’Amor vèn vosco;
et ria fortuna pò ben venir meno,
s’ai segni del mio sol l’aere conosco.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Jones 

R. Jones sets stanza 1

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Confirmed with Il Canzoniere di Francesco Petrarca a cura di Gianfranco Contini, Edizione Einaudi, 1964.


Text Authorship:

  • by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 153 [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 Robert Jones (flourished 1597-1615), "Ite caldi sospiri", 1609, stanza 1, from A Musical Dreame or Fourth Booke of Ayres [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , David H. Clarke

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 100

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