Nessun visse giamai piu di me lieto (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2018-07-10)  CPDL #50469:         

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2018-07-10).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 295 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Updated, modernised.

• (Posted 2014-09-22)  CPDL #33006:        (Finale 2004)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2014-09-22).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Nessun visse giamai piu di me lieto
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca

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

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Continuation du mellange, no. 26
    2nd published: 1587 in Madrigali novamente composti a 5 voci, no. 15
Description: The 7th stanza of Petrarch's double-sestina Mia benigna fortuna.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Mia benigna fortuna e 'l viver lieto v. 7

Italian text Nessun visse giamai piu di me lieto; Nessun vive piu tristo e giorni e notti: E doppiando'l dolor, doppia lo stile, Che trahe del cor si lagrimose rime. Vissi di speme; hor vivo pur di pianto, Ne contra morte spero altro che morte.

English translation No one has ever led a happier life than I once did: no one's days and nights are more sorrowful than mine. As the pain is redoubled, so doubled is the dagger that draws from my heart such tearful verse. I used to live inspired by hope; yet now my life is filled with lamenting: no remedy for death there is but death itself. Translation by Mick Swithinbank