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Cruda Amarilli (Luca Marenzio)
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General Information
Title: Cruda Amarilli
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1595
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora
D'amar, ahi lasso, amaramente insegni.
Amarilli, del candido ligustro
Più candida e più bella,
Ma dell'aspido sordo e più sorda
E più fera e più fugace.
Poi che col dir t'offendo,
I' mi morrò tacendo
English text
Cruel Amaryllis, who with your name still
To love, ah wearily, bitterly, you teach;
Amaryllis than the white privet
More white and beautiful,
But than the deaf snake
More deaf and more wild and more fleeting;
Since that to speak I offend you
I shall die in silence.
English translation reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press from 'The Oxford Book of Italian Madrigals'.
