S'un medesimo ardor, s'un disir pare (Giovan Nasco)

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  • (Posted 2021-09-18)  CPDL #65822:       
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2021-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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General Information

Title: S'un medesimo ardor, s'un disir pare
Composer: Giovan Nasco
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1557
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

S’un medesimo ardor, s’un desir pare
inchina e sforza l’uno e l’altro sesso
a quel suave fin d’amor, che pare
all’ignorante vulgo un grave eccesso;
perché si de’ punir donna o biasmare,
che con uno o più d’uno abbia commesso
quel che l’uom fa con quante n’ha appetito,
e lodato ne va, non che impunito?

English.png English translation

If like desire, and if an equal flame
Move one and the other sex, who warmly press
To that soft end of love (their goal the same)
Which to the witless crowd seems rank excess;
Say why shall woman — merit scathe or blame,
Though lovers, one or more, she may caress;
While man to sin with whom he will is free,
And meets with praise, not mere impunity?

Translation by William Stewart Rose