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Medieval Music Database

Quando la stella press'a l'alba spira

madrigal by Giovanni da Cascia

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 54v (2/2).

Facsimiles

Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 101.

Editions

1. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Amsterdam: American Institute of Musicology, 1954. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/I, p. 38.
2. Italian Secular Music by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze and Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1967. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VI, p. 72.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 20.

Literature

1. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Madrigali inediti del Trecento', Belfagor, XIV (1959), p. 80.
2. PAGANUZZI, Enrico. 'Il Trecento', [chapter 2 of] La musica a Verona, Verona: Banca mutua popolare di Verona, 1976, pp. 33-70.

Recordings

A Song for Francesca. Music in Italy, 1330-1430, Gothic Voices, Andrew Lawrence-King (medieval harp), directed by Christopher Page (1987): Hyperion CDA 66286.

Text

Quando la stella press'a l'alba spira
e 'l sol si mostra in verso l'oriente.
Amor gentil m'aparse ne la mente:

la vaga donna col benigno aspetto
teneva nelle brazza per diletto.

Poi la coperse di perfetta luce
e del suo raggio la fece vestita
vermiglio e bianco di color partita.

Una ghirlanda in su le trezze bionde
di foglie verdi pose con le fronde.

Translation

When the evening star dies near dawn.
and the sun shows itself in the East.
gentle Love appeared in my mind.

He was carrying in his arms for pleasure
a beautiful woman with a benign face.

Then he wrapped her up in perfect light.
clothing her in his rays so that her garment
appeared to be partly white, partly red.

On her blonde tresses
he placed a green leafy garland.

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga



Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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