Lascian le fresche linfe (Giovanni Bernardino Nanino)

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  • (Posted 2022-06-10)  CPDL #69645:       
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2022-06-10).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 367 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Lascian le fresche linfe
Composer: Giovanni Bernardino Nanino
Lyricist: Orsina Cavaletta
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1588 in Il primo libro de madrigali, no. 12
Description: The text deviates from the originally published poem by Orsina Cavaletta in Rime 1587, but is doubtlessly based on this poem,
See also Lascian le fresche linfe (Orazio Vecchi)

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Lascian le fresche linfe
Le vezzosette Ninfe,
Per goder l'acque d'esto tranquil mare
Per quest'i Cigni vaghi,
Scherzan contenti e paghi.
E si tengon felici
I monti e le pendici,
Ch'i fiumi suoi dian censo,
A questo mar immenso.
Poi che nel suo bel seno,
Si viv'e muor'ogn'hor contento à pieno.

Orsina Cavaletta, Rime (1587) pp.216