Deh Tirsi, anima mia perdona (Antonio Cifra)

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  • (Posted 2021-05-30)  CPDL #64574:       
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2021-05-30).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 359 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Deh Tirsi, anima mia perdona
Composer: Antonio Cifra
Lyricist: Giovanni Battista Guarini
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1608 in Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, no. 11,12
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Amarilli
Deh Tirsi (Mirtilli), anima mia perdona
A chi t'è cruda sol dove pietosa
Esser non può; perdona a questa solo
Nei detti e nel sembiante
Rigida tua nemica ma nel core
Pietosissima amante,
E se pur hai desio di vendicarti,
Deh qual vendetta haver puoi tu maggiore,
Del tuo proprio dolore

Che se tu se'l cor mio,
Come se pur mal grado
Del cielo e de la terra,
Qual hor piagni e sospiri
Quelle lagrime tue sono il mio sangue,
Que' sospiri il mio spirto; e quelle pene,
E quel dolor che senti
Son miei non tuoi tormenti.

Guarini, Il Pastor fido, Act 3, Scene 4, line 34

English.png English translation

Amarillis
And thou, my love Tirsi (Mirtillo).
O pardon her that's only cruel
Where she is forced from thee to hide
All show of mercy! O forgive
Her thy fierce foe in looks and words alone,
But thy most tender lover in her heart!
Or if revenge be thy desire,
What greater vengeance can'st thou take on me,
Than thy own grief;

for if thou be my heart,
As sure thou art in spite of heav'n and earth,
Whene'er thou sigh'st or sheddest tears,
Thy sighs my vital spirits are,
Thy tears my blood, and all those pangs,
And all those mournful sighs of thine,
Are not thy pangs, are not thy sighs, but mine!

Translation by Wiliam Clapperton