Ma tu, piú che mai dura | Mais toi, plus dure que jamais

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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Ma tu, piú che mai dura

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE SPA

Ma tu, piú che mai dura,
favilla di pietà non senti ancora;
anzi t'inaspri piú, quanto piú prego.
Cosí senza parlar dunque m'ascolti?
A chi parlo, infelice? a un muto marmo?
S'altro non mi vuoi dir, dimmi almen: «Mori!»
e morir mi vedrai.
Questa è ben, empio Amor, miseria estrema,
che sí rigida ninfa
[e del mio fin sí vaga,
perché grazia di lei
non sia la morte mia, morte mi neghi,]¹
[né]² mi risponda, e l'armi
d'una sola sdegnosa e cruda voce
sdegni di proferire
al mio morir.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Monteverdi

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¹ omitted by Monteverdi.
² Monteverdi: "non"

Text Authorship:

by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 347-362. [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 Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Ma tu, piú che mai dura", published 1605 [ vocal quintet ], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 11, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ma tu, piú che mai dura", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , "Mas tú, severa más que nunca", 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.
Line count: 16
Word count: 91

Ma tu, piú che mai dura

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Mais toi, plus dure que jamais,
tu ne sens même pas une étincelle de pitié ;
plutôt, tu deviens plus dure quand je te prie plus.
Ainsi sans parler tu m'écoutes donc ?
À qui parlé-je, malheureux, à une pierre muette ?
Si tu ne veux rien me dire d'autre , dis au moins : « Meurs ! »
et tu me verras mourir.
C'est bien, perfide Amour, la peine la plus extrême
qu'une nymphe aussi sévère



ne me réponde pas, et l'arme
d'un seul mot dédaigneux et cruel,
elle dédaigne de le prononcer
pour ma mort.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Italian (Italiano) to French (Français) copyright © 2012 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 347-362.
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This text was added to the website: 2013-01-25
Line count: 13
Word count: 92