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Luis Milán

O gelosia d’amanti

 

El Maestro (1536), fol. R2v

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Source title De aqui adela[n]te empiezan los sonetos en ytaliano: y este primero que se sigue se ha de tañer algo a espacio: y el cantor puede hazer garganta do[n]de hallara que ay lugar.
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Text incipit O gelosia damanti


Music

Category song

Genre Soneto

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 4

Length (compases) 130

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/5

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo slow

Song Text

Language IT

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

text: Jacopo Sannazaro
Another setting in Mudarra (mu068)

Song Text

O gelosia d’amanti, horribil freno
Che in un punto mi volggi e tien si forte;
O sorella di le empia et amara morte,
Che con tua vista turbi il ciel sereno;

O serpente nascosto in dolci seno
Che i lieti fior de mie speranze hai morte;
Tra prosperi successi, adversa sorte;
Tra soavi vivande aspro veneno.

Di qual furia infernal nel mondo uscisti,
O crudel mostro, O pesti dei mortali,
Che hai fatti gli giorni miei si amari e tristi?

Tornati in giu, non rradopia miei mali;
Infelice paura ad che venisti?
Hor non bastaba amor con li suoi strali?

O jealousy of lovers, horrid restraint
which, in an instant, pulls me and holds me firm.
O sister of impious and cruel death who,
upon seeing you, arouses the serene skies.

O serpent hidden in a sweet breast
Who at your wish has killed my hopes;
Between happy events, adverse fate,
In delicate food, bitter poison.

From what infernal earthly fury did you spring,
O cruel monster, o plague of mortals,
Who has made my days so bitter and sad?

Retreat at once, do not increase my woes;
Unhappy fear, why did you come,
Was Love not enough with his arrows?

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