Felicissimo sonno (Carlo Gesualdo)

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CPDL #19173: Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif [ Sibelius 5]
Editor: Daniel Harmer (submitted 2009-04-06).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 44 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Sibelius file is zipped.

General Information

Title: Felicissimo sonno
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1613

Description: Book 5 Madrigals, No. 7

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Felicissimo sonno
Che ne le luci di madonna vivi
E noi di luce privi,
Deh, con un sogno messaggier le mostra
L'afflitta anima nostra;
Fà che in partir da lei pietà vi resti
E pietosa si desti.


English.png English translation by Mick Swithinbank

Most happy sleep,
dwelling in the eyes of my lady
and so depriving us of light,
I beg you, take her a message in a dream
to show her the affliction of my1 soul;
when you leave her, let mercy remain in her
so that she awakes inclined to pity.

1 Literally 'our', but probably only used for the sake of the rhyme.