Credete voi ch'i' viva (Luca Marenzio)
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- Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2017-05-23). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 216 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- Editors: Phillip Grow and R. Satterthwaite (submitted 2009-01-14). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Credete voi ch'i' viva
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612)
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Credete voi ch'i' viva
Pascendo il cor famelico e penoso
Del pensiero amoroso?
Ahi, ch'i' ne moro.
Perché vita e ristoro
Ben ho pensando, anima cara, in voi.
Ma quando penso poi ch'i' ne son privo,
Moro del cibo onde mi pasco e vivo.
English translation
Do you believe that I live
Nourishing my hungry and painful heart
With loving thoughts?
Alas, I die of it.
Because life and relief
I get if I think of you, my dear soul.
But then, when I think that I'm without it,
I die from the food of which I feed and live.