Per alti monti e per selve aspre trovo (Philippe Verdelot)

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  • (Posted 2021-10-31)  CPDL #66472:        (LilyPond)
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2021-10-31).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
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Title: Per alti monti e per selve aspre trovo
Composer: Philippe Verdelot
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1534 in Il secondo libro de madrigali (Philippe Verdelot), no. 4
    2nd published: 1540 in Tutti li madrigali del primo et secondo libro a quatro voci, Edition 1, no. 57
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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Per alti monti e per selve aspre trovo
qualche riposo: ogni abitato loco
è nemico mortal degli occhi miei.
A ciascun passo nasce un penser nuovo
della donna mia, che sovente in gioco
gira'l tormento ch'io porto per lei;
et a pena vorrei
cangiar questo mio viver dolce amaro,
ch'io dico: Forse ancor ti serva Amore
ad un tempo migliore;
forse, a te stesso vile, altrui sei caro.
E in questa trapasso sospirando:
Or porrebbe esser vero? or com'or quando?

English.png English translation

Translation by A.S.Kline

I find some repose in high mountains
and in savage woods: each inhabited place
is the mortal enemy of my eyes.
At every step a new thought of my lady
is born, which often turns the suffering
I bear to joy, because of her:
and, as often as I wish
to alter my bitter and sweet life,
I say: Perhaps Love is saving you
for a better time:
perhaps you are dear to another, hateful to yourself.
And with this, sighing, I continue:
Now can this be true? And how? And when?