Potrò viver io più (Luca Marenzio)

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• (Posted 2020-05-14)  CPDL #58599:     

Editor: Marcos Mato (submitted 2020-05-14).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 64 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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• (Posted 2015-01-04)  CPDL #34110:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-04).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 89 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts and source available on IMSLP.

General Information

Title: Potrò viver io più
Composer: Luca Marenzio
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1581 in Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci, no. 2
  2nd published: 1591 in Melodia Olympica, no. 52

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Original text and translations

Italian text Potrò viver io più se senza Luce rimasto son e se altrove riluce del mio bel sol la sua lucente luce? Ahi, non fia ver, ma copri d'ogni interno oscure nubbi il giorno e a me la luce cara di questa vita sia per sempre amara, finché d'un giorno più serena luce non meni a gli occhi miei la vera Luce.

English translation Shall I continue living, if without Light I am left and if elsewhere shines of my beautiful sun the shimmery light? Alas—were this not true!—but may every single day be darkened by overcast skies and may the sweet light of this life be to me forever bitter, until that day when a more serene light shall bring to my eyes the true Light. Translation by Campelli

French translation Pourrai-je vivre encore, si sans Lumière je suis resté et si ailleurs reluit de mon beau soleil la lumière brillante? Ah, si seulement ce n'était pas vrai! Que les obscures nuages noircissent chaque jour futur et que pour moi soit l'aimée lumière de cette vie à toujours amère, jusqu'à ce jour que plus sereine lumière ne mène à mes yeux la vrai Lumière. Translation by Campelli