Ov'è condotto il mio amoroso stile

General information

Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca. The 3rd stanza of Petrarch's double-sestina Mia benigna fortuna.

Settings by composers

• Orlando di Lasso SATB
• Luca Marenzio SATB

 

Text and translations

Italian text Ov'è condotto il mio amoroso stile? A parlar d'ira, a ragionar di morte. U son' i versi, u son giunte le rime Che gentil cor udia pensoso e lieto? Ov'è'l favoleggiar d'Amor le notti[note]? Hor non parl'io ne penso altro che pianto.

English translation What has become of the love of which I used to write? How is it that now I have to speak of anger and death? Where are the verses, where the poetry, that a noble heart once heard so pensively, with pleasure? Where is the talk of love at night? Now I cannot speak or think of anything but lamenting. Translation by Mick Swithinbank