Rex Asiae et Ponti (Cipriano de Rore)
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- (Posted 2020-09-05) CPDL #60439:
- Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2020-09-05). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 405 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Rex Asiae et Ponti
Composer: Cipriano de Rore
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1566 in Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Edition 1, no. 21
2nd published: 1569 in Il primo libro delle fiamme a quattro e cinque voci, no. 21
Description: The addressee of this work is Wolfgang Engelbert I. from the noble Family Auersperg in Carniola (German: Krain) in present-day Slovenia (see the reference below).
External websites: article (in Slovenian) with English abstract identifying the addressee of this work
Original text and translations
Latin text
Rex Asiae et Ponti potuit celeberrimus olim,
Linguarum varios ore sonare modos,
Divitiis alios longe superaverat omnes,
Imperii cuius maxima Roma tui,
Rebus Alexander gestis clarissimis orbis,
Inclitus immensi Rex domitorque fuit.
O prisce Wolffange decusque et gloria stirpis Auspurge,
Qua se carmina iactat ovans his quaque fortuna parente voluit esse:
Alma tamen virtus annumerare cupit.