Io son ferito (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

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  • (Posted 2024-08-16)  CPDL #81629:       
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-08-16).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
Edition notes: Transposed down a 4th.
  • (Posted 2024-08-16)  CPDL #81628:        (LilyPond)
Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2024-08-16).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 86 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC
Edition notes: Original high clefs.
  • (Posted 2018-12-23)  CPDL #52699:     
Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2018-12-23).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes:

Arrangements

Soprano divisions by Bovicelli

  • (Posted 2018-10-04)  CPDL #51429:       
Editor: Mauricio Bardi (submitted 2018-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 133 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Arranged by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli. In A dorian, without accompaniment.
  • (Posted 2018-10-04)  CPDL #51430:       
Editor: Mauricio Bardi (submitted 2018-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 132 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Arranged by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli. For violin, transposed to B dorian, without accompaniment.

"Ave verum" contrafact, in Bovicelli's version

  • (Posted 2018-10-03)  CPDL #51421:       
Editor: Mauricio Bardi (submitted 2018-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 132 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Arranged by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, without accompaniment.
  • (Posted 2018-10-04)  CPDL #51423:     
Editor: Mauricio Bardi (submitted 2018-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 131 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Arranged by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli. Transposed up to two sharps for higher voice or violin, without accompaniment.

General Information

Title: Io son ferito
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB, also divisions for accompanied Cantus
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: a cappella

First published: 1561 in Il terzo libro delle muse a cinque voci (Gardano), Edition 1, no. 9
    2nd published: 1569 in Il terzo libro delle muse a cinque voci (Gardano, Venice), Edition 2, no. 9
    3rd published: 1570 in Prima stella de madrigali a cinque voci (Scotto, Venice), no. 8
    4th published: 1588 in Gemma musicalis liber primus (Friedrich Lindner), no. 47
    5th published: 1593 in Nuova spoglia amorosa (Vincenti, Venice), no. 27
    6th published: 1594 in Regole, passaggi di musica, madrigali, e motetti passeggiati (Giovanni Battista Bovicelli) – arr. by Bovicelli
    7th published: 1596 in Paradiso musicale (ed. Pierre Phalèse), no. 3
    8th published: 1606 in Hortus musicalis (ed. Michael Herrer) – sacred contrafact, Book 1, no. 23
Description: Giovanni Battista Bovicelli's diminutions of Palestrina's secular motet, Io son ferito. Palestrina also reworked the piece into a sacred motet, his Ave Verum Corpus. Likewise, Bovicelli wrote diminutions on the Ave Verum Corpus.

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Io son ferito, ahi lasso! e chi mi diede
accusar pur vorrei, ma non ho prova;
e senz' indizio al mal non si da fede:
ne getta sangue la mia piaga nuova.
Io spasm' e moro; il colpo non si vede.
La mia nemica armata si ritrova.
Che fia tornar a lei crudel partito,
che sol m'abbia a sanar chi m'ha ferito.

German.png German translation

Ich bin verwundet, ach, und jene, die mir das antat,
würde ich gerne anklagen, aber ich habe keinen Beweis;
doch ohne Nachweis schenkt man dem Leiden keinen Glauben,
auch fließt kein Blut aus meiner neuen Wunde.
Ich leide und sterbe; die Wunde sieht man nicht.
Meine Feindin zeigt sich bewaffnet.
Welch grausames Vorhaben wird es sein, zu ihr zurückzukehren,
da nur sie mich heilen kann, die mich verwundet hat.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt
English.png English translation

I am wounded, alas, and she who did it to me
I would fain accuse, but I have no proof;
yet without evidence no one will put faith in my woe,
nor does my fresh wound pour out blood.
I suffer and die; the wound is invisible,
my foe is found to be armed.
How cruel a task will it be to return to her,
for only she is able to heal me that has wounded me.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt
A variant of the poem used in Io son ferito ay lasso (Jean de Castro), Io son ferito hai lasso (Giovanni Francesco Capuano) and Io son ferito ahi lasso (Hippolito Sabino), and quite different from Io son ferito (Luca Marenzio). The text used by Capuano might be the primary source and will help to interpret the actual text.
The text of Wounded I am - Yet of us twain (William Byrd) appears to be a contemporary English imitation of this ottava, reworked as a sonnet.

Original text and translations may be found at Ave verum corpus.  

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