Donna nel mio ritorno (Claudio Monteverdi)

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CPDL #23198:   MUP 

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2011-02-26).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MUP file is zipped.

General Information

Title: Donna nel mio ritorno
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Torquato Tasso

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Venezia, 1590

Description: Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 9

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Original text and translations

Italian text Donna, nel mio ritorno il mio pensiero, a cui nulla pon freno, precorre dove il ciel è più sereno, e se ne vien a far con voi soggiorno; né da voi si diparte giamai la notte e’l giorno, perché l’annoia ciascun’altra parte. Onde sol per virtù del pensier mio, mentre ne vengo a voi, con voi son io.

English translation Milady, while I return to you my thoughts, which nothing restrains, rush across the most serene sky and come to abide by you; never they leave you, neither at day nor night, because everywhere else would bore them. It is, thus, only by virtue of my thoughts that as I come towards you, I am already with you.

French translation Madame, pendant que je reviens ma pensée, que rien ne peut frener, court là où le ciel est plus serein et vient séjourner près de vous; elle ne vous abandonne jamais, ni la nuit, ni le jour, car elle s'ennuie d'être ailleurs. Alors, c'est en vertu de ma seule pensée que tandis que je vous rejoins, je suis avec vous dèjà.