Ma tu, cagion di quella atroce pena (Carlo Gesualdo)
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Title: Ma tu, cagion di quella atroce pena
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1613
Description: Book 5 Madrigals, No. 18. This the second part of Poiché l'avida, which is No. 17.
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Original text and translations
Italian text
Ma tu, cagion di quella atroce pena
Che a la morte mi mena,
Mira, mal grado tuo, pietoso effetto
De la tua crudeltà, del mio tormento,
Che, morendo, al mio duol morte non sento.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
But you, the cause of that appalling torture
which will end my life,
see how, despite yourself, one merciful effect flows from your cruelty
and the suffering it inflicts:
as I die, I am already in such torment
that I shall be oblivious to the pain of dying.
