Ver' infern' e'l mio petto (Jacques Arcadelt)

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• (Posted 2018-11-13)  CPDL #51848:     

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-13).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts available at http://dfwviols.com/old/2013-08-11-01.

• (Posted 2010-06-13)  CPDL #21774:        (Finale 2010)

Editor: Walker Boyle (submitted 2010-06-13).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 81 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transcribed from the 1581 Gardane edition of "Il primo libro de' madrigali a 4 voci." Musica ficta applied to cadences - all sharps added by the editor. Note-values halved.

General Information

Title: Ver' infern' e'l mio petto
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt
Lyricist: Lorenzino de Medici^{create page} or Francesco Berni

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1539 in Il primo libro de' madrigali a 4 voci, no. 1.59
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Original text and translations

Italian text Ver'infern'è'l mio petto, ver'infernale spirito son'io, e ver'infernal foco è'l foco mio. Senza fin'ardo e son di speme privo e dell'amat'obietto. Eternamente l'alma trista'ho persa, et ostinato in una voglia vivo. Sol di tant'è diversa la sorte mia dalla perduta gente, ch'a ragion quella, et io ardo innocente; maladice sovente et odia quella il suo fattor'Iddío, et io chi m'arde laud'amo' e desio.

English translation True hell is my breast and a true hellish soul am I, and true hellish fire is my fire. I burn endlessly and I'm deprived of hope and of the object of my love. I have forever lost my soul, and live obsessed by one desire only. Nonetheless, immensely different is my destiny from that of those lost souls, in that they rightly burn, whereas I do so as an innocent; that throng curses often and hates God, its maker, whereas I praise, love and desire [she] who causes me to burn. Translation by Campelli