Ardo per te, mio bene (Carlo Gesualdo)

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• CPDL #05360: 

Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2003-07-28).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 380 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: revised May 28, 2004.

General Information

Title: Ardo per te, mio bene
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

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External website(s):

• Facsimile: Partitvra delli sei libri de’ Madrigali a cinqve voci — Madrigals Books I – VI (Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1613) – large download, 70 MB, 492pp

Original text and translations

Italian text

Ardo per te, mio bene, ma l’ardore
Spira dolce aura al core
Moro per te, mia vita, ma il morire
Gioia divien, dolcissimo il languire.
Felice sorte ancor ch’io arda e moia:
L’ardor divien dolce aura, e 'l morir gioia.
 

English translation

I burn for you, my love, but my ardour
Wafts sweet breezes on my heart
I die for you, my life, but my dying
Becomes a joy, most sweet the languishing.
Happy fate, to burn and to die:
Burning becomes a soft breeze and dying a joy.
 

German translation

Ich brenne für dich, meine Liebe, aber die Glut
weht als süßer Hauch dem Herzen
Ich sterbe für dich, mein Leben, aber das Sterben
wird mir zur Freude, zum süßesten Vergehen.
Glückliches Schicksal, auch wenn ich brenne und sterbe:
Die Glut wird ein süßer Hauch, und das Sterben Freude.