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(Posted 2023-05-10) CPDL #73744:

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2023-05-10). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 414 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: When transposed up a second or third the voices can be SATTBB

General Information

Title: Ahi dispietato Amor, come consenti
Composer: Alessandro Striggio
Lyricist: Bernardo Tasso
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: STTTBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1571 in Secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 23
Description: The six's voice, the Sesto, has the warning: "Sesta parte si placet"; very complicated timing

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Original text and translations

Italian text

Ahi dispietato Amor, come consenti
ch'io meni vita sì penosa e ria,
solcando un ampio mar d'aspri tormenti
per così lunga e perigliosa via?
Deh, perché fiato de' benigni venti
non sospinge la stanca nave mia
sì, che dopo un cammin sì lungo e torto
possa chiuder la vela in questo porto?

English translation

Ah, pitiless Love, how can you permit
me to lead a life so pathetic and cruel,
sailing upon a vast sea of bitter torments
for such a long and perilous way?
Alas, why doesn't a breath of benign winds
not push my weary ship
so, that after a voyage so long and crooked
I might drop my sails in this harbor?

Translation by Allen Garvin

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 ==Original text and translations==
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-Ahi dispietato Amor, come consenti
+{{text|Italian|Ahi dispietato Amor, come consenti
-Ch'io meni vita sì penosa e ria,
+ch'io meni vita sì penosa e ria,
-Solcando un empio mar d'aspri tormenti
+solcando un ampio mar d'aspri tormenti
-Per cosi lunga e perigliosa via?
+per così lunga e perigliosa via?
-Deh perchè fiato de benigni venti
+Deh, perché fiato de' benigni venti
-Non sospinge la stanca nave mia
+non sospinge la stanca nave mia
-Si, che dopo un camin sì lungo e torto
+sì, che dopo un cammin sì lungo e torto
-Possa chiuder la vela in questo porto?
+possa chiuder la vela in questo porto?}}
+{{mdl}}
-''Bernardo Tasso, Il Tesoretto (1846), Stanze, p. 205''}
+{{translation|English|Ah, pitiless Love, how can you permit
+me to lead a life so pathetic and cruel,
+sailing upon a vast sea of bitter torments
+for such a long and perilous way?
+Alas, why doesn't a breath of benign winds
+not push my weary ship
+so, that after a voyage so long and crooked
+I might drop my sails in this harbor?}}
+{{translator|Allen Garvin}}
+{{btm}}
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