Inclite Sfortiadum princeps (Adrian Willaert)

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• (Posted 2025-07-31)  CPDL #86147:     

Editor: Jonathan Harvey (submitted 2025-07-31).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 109 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Inclite Sfortiadum princeps
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Secular, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1539 in Musica quinque vocum liber primus, no. 15
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Latin text

Inclite Sfortiadum princeps
inclite Sfortiadum nate sanguine
divo, nate sanguine,
sanguine divo, Dux invicte potens,
dux Franciscu Sfortiadum
dux invicte, strenuus magnanime,
Summe, animos viresque tuas,
cognomen ab hoste
Laturum palmam te notat ecce tuum,
Nunti at hoc insigne tuum:
sicut anguis et ipse
Se novat in melius,
sors tua sit melior.