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Reading: Altiero sasso lo cui gioco spira

from Cipriano de Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci by Blue Heron

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Altiero sasso lo cui gioco spira
Gli antichi honor del gran popul di Marte,
Fiume che fendi questa et quella parte,
Hor quieto et piano, hor pien di sdegno et ira;

Piaggie che ’l mondo ancor ama et sospira,
Consecrate da tante et da tai carte,
Memorie eterne et voi reliquie sparte
Ch’ogni bon alma con pieta rimira:

Parmi d’udir fugendo a voi d’intorno
Sospirar l’onde, e i rami e i fior e l’ora
Lagnarsi, et per dolor romper i sassi,

Che già del pianto s’avicina el giorno
Che ’l bel viso ch’Italia tutta honora
Cinti d’horor al suo partir vi lassi.

Francesco Maria Molza
in Libro terzo delle rime di diversi nobilissimi et eccellentissimi autori (Venice, 1550)

Proud rock whose peak breathes forth
the ancient rites of the great people of Mars;
river that breaks on this side and that,
now quiet and still, now full of rage and fury;

grounds that the world still loves and sighs for,
consecrated by so many and by such writings;
eternal memories, and you scattered relics
on which every good soul gazes with devotion:

I seem to hear fleeing around you
the waves sigh, and the branches and flowers and breeze
lament, and the stones break from grief,

for already the day of weeping draws near
when the fair face that all Italy honors
shall leave you wrapt in horror at her departure.

[Originally written to mark the departure of Vittoria Farnese, sent from
Rome to marry a member of the French royal family.]

Translation by Scott Metcalfe Cf. Martha Feldman

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from Cipriano de Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci, released October 4, 2019

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