Perfida pur potesti (Benedetto Pallavicino)

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• (Posted 2023-09-13)  CPDL #75365:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2023-09-13).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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• (Posted 2019-03-23)  CPDL #53663:       

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2019-03-23).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 325 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Perfida pur potesti
Composer: Benedetto Pallavicino
Lyricist: Angelo Grillo

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1588 in Madrigali a 5 voci, libro 4, no. 20
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Original text and translations

Italian text Perfida, pur potesti negarmi ancor in sull'estremo aita, non dando fede a l'aspra mia ferita? Or godi di mia morte, ch'io spero, ignudo spirto, aver in sorte di tormentar quel dispietato core, che non ebbe pietà del mio dolore.

English translation O perfidious one, could you truly deny my succor in my final hour, unbelieving in my mortal wound? Revel now in my death, for I hope, as a naked spirit, to be fated to torment that pitiless heart, which had not pity for my suffering. Translation by Allen Garvin