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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

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

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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

Ce petit oiseau qui chante

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

Ce petit oiseau qui chante
si doucement et vole plein de désir,
maintenant du sapin au hêtre,
et maintenant du hêtre au myrte,
s'il avait un esprit humain,
il dirait : « je brûle d'amour, je brûle d'amour. »
Mais il brûle dans son cœur
et il appelle son désir
qui lui répond : « Je brûle d'amour aussi. »
Sois béni,
petit oiseau amoureux, gentil et gracieux.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act I, Scene 1, lines 175-186
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This text was added to the website: 2013-02-28
Line count: 11
Word count: 66