Filli, mirando il cielo (Sigismondo d'India)

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CPDL #29815:    Finale 2004 

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2013-08-10).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 163 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Filli, mirando il cielo
Composer: Sigismondo d'India

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
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Italian text Filli, mirando il cielo, dicea dogliosa e'n tanto Empìa di calde perle un bianco un velo: Io mi distill'in pianto, D'amor languisco e moro, Né ritrovo pietate, o ciel, o stelle. Io pur son giovinetta e'l crinho d'oro, E colorite e belle Sembran le guancie mie rose novelle. Ahi qual sara'l tormento Quand'avrò d'oro il volto e'l crin d'argento?

English translation Filli, looking at the sky, moaned and in the meantime she filled a white veil with warm pearls: "I am melting in tears, for love I languish and die, and I am pitiless, oh sky, oh stars. I am still young and my hair is golden, my cheeks are beautiful like newborne roses. Alas, how painful will it be to have a golden face and silver hair?"