Questi ch'indizio fan del mio tormento (Alessandro Striggio)
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- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-07). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 95 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.
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Title: Questi ch’indizio fan del mio tormento
Composer: Alessandro Striggio
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto from Orlando Furioso, canto 23 ottava 127.
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1571 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci (Scotto press, Venice)
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Questi ch’indizio fan del mio tormento,
sospir non sono, né i sospir son tali.
Quelli han triegua talora; io mai non sento
che ’l petto mio men la sua pena esali.
Amor che m’arde il cor, fa questo vento,
mentre dibatte intorno al fuoco l’ali.
Amor, con che miracolo lo fai,
che ’n fuoco il tenghi, e nol consumi mai?
English translation by William Rose (1775-1843)
No; these, which are the index of my woes,
These are not sighs, nor sighs are such; they fail
At times, and have their season of repose:
I feel, my breast can never less exhale
Its sorrow: Love, who with his pinions blows
The fire about my heart, creates this gale.
Love, by what miracle does thou contrive,
It wastes not in the fire thou keep'st alive?