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Fortuna desperata (Alexander Agricola)
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Title: Fortuna desperata
Composer: Alexander Agricola
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: ATTTBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Fortuna desperata
Iniqua e maledecta, maledecta
Che de tal dona electa
La fama hai denigrata.
O morte dispietata
Inimica e crudele, e crudele
Che d'alto più che stelle
L'hai cusì abassata.
Meschino e despietata
Ben piangere posso may, posso may
Et desiro finire,
Desiro finire i mei guay.
English translation
Desperate fate,
iniquitous and maledicted
who blackened the good name
of a woman beyond compare.
O relentless death
inimical and cruel
that abased her,
who stood higher than the stars.
All alone and in despair
I can do nothing else than weep
and I desire my sorrow
to come to an end.
German translation
Verzweifeltes Schicksal,
widerwärtig und verflucht
das den guten Namen
einer hervorragenden Frau verdunkelt hat.
O erbarmungsloser Tod,
feindlich und grausam,
der du sie, die höher als die Sterne stand,
so erniedrigt hast.
Einsam und verzweifelt
kann ich nicht anders als weinen,
und ich sehne mich nach dem Ende
meines Kummers.
