Intorno a due vermiglie (Claudio Monteverdi)

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Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 63 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Intorno a due vermiglie
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Venezia, 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 6

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Original text and translations

Italian text Intorno a due vermiglie e vaghe labra di cui rose più belle non ha la Primavera, volan soavi baci a schiera a schiera. E son più ch’a le stelle in ciel puro e sereno, più ch’a le gemme de la terra in seno. Motti sonori od amorosi o casti, tra tanti un mi negasti, spietato un bacio solo, tu, che non spieghi a volo, Amor, insidiando a baci, sì come augei rapaci che, sol imaginando han già rapita quest’alma e questa vita. Tendi l’insidie, tendi, et un almen tra mille ardito prendi.

English translation Around two vermillion pretty lips, more beautiful than any rose that blooms in Spring, sweet kisses fly in flocks. And they are more than the stars in the clear, serene sky, more than the gems in all of Earth. Among the many resounding words, loving or chaste, you denied me one, a single kiss, cruel man, who do not spread your wings, Love, ambushing with kisses as if you were a bird of prey, and have by sheer imagination captured my soul and life. Set traps, set them, and among a thousand preys, catch a brave one.

French translation Autour de deux belles lèvres vermeilles, plus belles que toutes celles qui fleurissent au printemps, volent des suaves baisers par nuées. Et il sont plus nombreux que les étoiles dans un ciel clair et serein, plus que les gemmes au sein de la terre. Entre ces maints messages sonores, amoureux ou chastes, tu m'en as réfusé un, cruel, un seul baiser, toi qui ne déplioie pas ses ailes, Amour, qui tend les pièges par les baisers, comme un oiseau rapace as par ton imagination déjà capturé cette âme et cette vie. Tends les pièges, tends-les, et, entre mille, attrape au moins une proie audacieuse.