S'un medesimo ardor, s'un disir pare (Giovan Nasco)

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• (Posted 2021-09-18)  CPDL #65822:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2021-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

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Title: S'un medesimo ardor, s'un disir pare
Composer: Giovan Nasco
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1557
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Original text and translations

Italian text S’un medesimo ardor, s’un desir pare inchina e sforza l’uno e l’altro sesso a quel suave fin d’amor, che pare all’ignorante vulgo un grave eccesso; perché si de’ punir donna o biasmare, che con uno o più d’uno abbia commesso quel che l’uom fa con quante n’ha appetito, e lodato ne va, non che impunito?

English translation If like desire, and if an equal flame Move one and the other sex, who warmly press To that soft end of love (their goal the same) Which to the witless crowd seems rank excess; Say why shall woman — merit scathe or blame, Though lovers, one or more, she may caress; While man to sin with whom he will is free, And meets with praise, not mere impunity? Translation by William Stewart Rose