Lasso che mal accorto fui (Cipriano de Rore)

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• (Posted 2014-10-18)  CPDL #33163:         

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2014-10-18).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key (chiavi naturali) and note-values. Alto part is in transposed violin clef.

General Information

Title: Lasso che mal accorto fui
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1548 in Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Edition 1, no. 15
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Original text and translations

Italian text Lasso, che mal accorto fui da prima nel giorno ch'a ferir mi venne Amore, ch'a passo a passo è poi fatto signore de la mia vita, et posto in su la cima. Io non credea per forza di sua lima che punto di fermezza o di valore mancasse mai ne l'indurato core; ma cosí va, chi sopra 'l ver s'estima. Canzoniere 65 (first 8 lines)

English translation Alas, how unprepared I was at first that day when Love came to wound me, and step by step made himself the lord of my life, and took his place at the head. I did not think that rasping power of his could ever lessen by a jot the firmness or the strength of my well-tempered heart: but so it is when we overestimate the truth. Translation by Anthony S. Kline ©