Ite amari sospiri

General Information

Author: Giovanni Battista Guarini, 1598 in Rime. Madrigal 43, "Donna dura poco dura"

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Giovanni Battista Caletti — Ite, amari sospiri  Italian SSATB
• Scipione Lacorcia — Ite, amari sospiri  Italian SATTB
• Luca Marenzio — Ite amari sospiri  Italian SATTB
• Hans Nielsen — Ite amari sospiri  Italian SSATB
• Claudio Saracini — Ite amari sospiri  Italian S

Text and translations

Italian text Ite, amari sospiri, a la bella cagion del morir mio e dite: «O troppo di pietate ignuda, s'avete pur desio di lungamente conservarvi cruda, allentate il rigore, che quel meschin si more. E darà tosto fin col suo morire a la durezza vostra, al suo languire».

English translation Go, bitter sighs, to the comely cause of my death and say: «O woman too barren of pity, if it really is your desire to remain cruel for a long time, relax your harshness, for that wretch is dying, and his death will soon put an end to your harshness, to his wallowing in pain». Translation by Campelli