Vassilissa ergo gaude (Guillaume Dufay)

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Title: Vasilissa ergo gaude
Composer: Guillaume Dufay

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: AATT

Genre: SecularMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices, tr87

Description: Transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr87. Composed for the marriage of Cleofe Malatesta with Theodore II Palaiologos. The Tenor is taken from the Psalm 45:11 (Catholic 44:11)

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Vasilissa, ergo gaude,
Quia es digna omni laude,
Cleophe, clara gestis
A tuis de Malatestis,
In Italia principibus
Magnis et nobilibus,

Ex tuo viro clarior,
Quia cunctis est nobilior:
Romeorum est despotus,
Quem colit mundus totus;
In porphyro est genitus,
A deo missus celitus

Iuvenili etate
polles et formositate
<Ingenio> multum fecunda
Et utraque lingua facunda
Ac clarior es virtutibus
Pre aliis hominibus.

Tenor
Concupivit rex decorem tuum
Quoniam ipse est dominus tuus
 

English.png English translation


Therefore rejoice, princess,
for you are worthy of all praise,
Cleofe, glorious from the deeds
of your Malatesta kin,
leading men in Italy,
great and noble,

More glorious from your husband,
for he is nobler than all;
he is Despot of the Rhomaioi,
he whom all the world reveres;
he was born in the purple,
sent by god from heaven

In youthfull bloom
you abound and in beauty,
very fertile <in your wits>
and eloquent in both tongues,
and you are more glorious for your virtues
above other human beings.

Tenor
The king hath conceived desire for thy beauty,
for he is thy Lord.

--Trans. Leofranc Holford-Strevens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilissa_ergo_gaude