Due rose fresche - Non vede un simil par (Luca Marenzio)

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CPDL #23802:  

Editor: Adam Steele (submitted 2011-06-27).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Parts I and II are in this edition. An intralinear translation is in the edition also.

CPDL #19339:  [ ] 

Editor: Jacques Mirou (submitted 2009-04-25).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: First part: Due rose fresche

CPDL #19340:  [ ] 

Editor: Jacques Mirou (submitted 2009-04-25).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Second part: Non vede un simil par

General Information

Title: Due rose fresche - Non vede un simil par
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca , Canzoniere 245.

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

Italian text

1. Due rose fresche e colte in paradiso
l'altro ieri nascend’il di primo di Maggio
Bel dono e d'un amante antico e saggio.
Tra due minori egualmente diviso
Con dolce parlar e con un riso
Da far innamorar un uomo selvaggio
Di sfavillante e d'amoroso raggio
E l’un e l’altro fe’ cangiare il viso.

2. "Non vede un simil par d’amanti il Sole."
Dicea, ridendo e sospirando insieme
E stringendo ambedue, volgeasi attorno.
Cosí partia le rose e le parole;
Ond’el cor lasso ancor s’allegra e teme:
O felice eloquenza! O lieto giorno!

English translation by A. S. Kline

1. Two fresh roses, gathered in paradise,
just now, that opened on the first of May,
a lovely gift, divided, by an older, wiser lover
between two young lovers, equally,
with such sweet speech and with a smile
that would make even a savage being love,
made each of them change their aspect
with its sparkling and amorous rays.