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Io son un pellegrin

from A 14th​-​Century Salmagundi by Blue Heron

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Io son un pellegrin che vo cercando
Limosina, per Dio merce chiamando.
Et vo cantando con la voce bella,
Con dolce aspetto et colla treça bionda.
Nonnò se non bordone et la scarsella,
Et chiamo, et nonnè chi mi risponda.
Et quando credo andare alla seconda,
Vento contrario mi vien tempestando.
Io son un pellegrin che vo cercando
Limosina, per Dio merce chiamando.


Translation:

I am a pilgrim who goes seeking
alms, calling for mercy in God’s name.
And I go singing with a lovely voice,
with sweet countenance and golden tresses.
Nothing have I save staff and satchel,
and I call, and there is no one who answers me.
And just when I think I’m on a steady course,
a contrary wind comes and blows up a storm against me.
I am a pilgrim who goes seeking
alms, calling for mercy in God’s name.

Translations by Scott Metcalfe, Thomas Forrest Kelly, and Lawrence Rosenwald.

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from A 14th​-​Century Salmagundi, released September 4, 2020

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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