Ardo (Bartolomeo Spighi da Prato)

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• CPDL #22188:  Finale 2008

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2010-08-24).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 113 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Ardo
Composer: Bartolomeo Spighi da Prato
Lyricist: Giambattista Marino , Rime Amorose

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Bass solo

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1641

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Original text and translations

Italian text Ardo, ma l'ardor mio grave e profondo, cui non m'è rivelar, donna, concesso, quasi novo Tifeo, chiuso et oppresso sotto il gran sasso del silenzio ascondo. Pur del mio foco [or.: de l'incendio], ond'io tacito abondo qualor freddo e tremante a voi m'appresso, son faville i sospir[i]; e 'l foco espresso scopre ne' muti sguardi Amor facondo. E se si strugge in cieca arsura il core, l'occulta face, ch'ho ne l'alma accesa, chiaro mostra negli occhi il suo splendore. Così tetto talor, cui dentro appresa nemica fiamma sia, l'interno ardore fuor per l'alte finestre altrui palesa.

English translation I burn, but [as] I am not allowed to speak, milady, of my heavy and grave fire, I, almost a new Typhon, hide it under the great stone of silence, having enclosed and estinguished it. Yet of my fire, which silently consumes me as I, cold and trembling, approach you, sparks are my sighs; and the voiced fire reveals in silent gazes a fecund Love. And while my heart suffers in the blind, scorching heat, the hidden ember that burns in my soul clearly displays its splendour through the eyes. Just like a house, under whose roof the hostile flames are contained, reveals the heat within through its tall windows.