Talk:Sfogava con le stelle (Claudio Monteverdi)

Infermo d'amore

Hi John, thanks for correcting the score text; you're right, this seems to be a very common and old mistake, as I have found:

"In making this recording we have tried to avoid both textual and musical errors by consulting the latest musicological research and making use of recently published and more accurate editions of the madrigals. Such errors, while taking nothing from the beauty of the works, arose in the past from problematic areas which have now been resolved: for example the line in track 4 which for many years was sung as "Sfogava con le stelle / un inferno d'amore", but which we now know ought to be "un infermo d'amore"."

-- Marco Longhini, in MONTEVERDI: Madrigals, Book 4 (Read more about this recording)

and

"I haven't followed all the contributions, so apologize if this has already been mentioned, but would just mention Frank Kermode's essays "The Uses of Error" -- the enrichment of texts through (sometimes unintentional) misunderstanding or contamination. For me an excellent example would be Monteverdi's madrigal "Sfogava con le stelle", where Rinuccini's "un infermo d'amore", one sick with love, becomes "un inferno d'amore" in the setting, a blazing inferno of love, which (though in some ways nonsensical and probably unintended) draws in intertexts in a remarkable way, and I don't think this detracts from it in the least in the musical context given it by the composer."

-- Geoffrey Chew, in Re: liberties with text

Regards, Carlos 02:51, 31 March 2008 (PDT)