Nessun visse giamai (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2018-11-14)  CPDL #51969:     

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-14).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 104 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2015-01-27)  CPDL #34421:        (Finale 2004)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-01-27).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 320 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down one tone from a-minor.

General Information

Title: Nessun visse giamai
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 2
    2nd published: 1594 in Madrigali a sei voci in un corpo ridotti, no. 52
Description: The 7th stanza of Petrarch's double-sestina Mia benigna fortuna.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Mia benigna fortuna e 'l viver lieto v. 7

Italian text Nessun visse giamai piu di me lieto; Nessun vive piu tristo e giorni e notti: E doppiando'l dolor, doppia lo stile, Che trahe del cor si lagrimose rime. Vissi di speme; hor vivo pur di pianto, Ne contra morte spero altro che morte.

English translation No one has ever led a happier life than I once did: no one's days and nights are more sorrowful than mine. As the pain is redoubled, so doubled is the dagger that draws from my heart such tearful verse. I used to live inspired by hope; yet now my life is filled with lamenting: no remedy for death there is but death itself. Translation by Mick Swithinbank