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Amor, che nel pensier mio viv'e regna
Two-voice ballata by Bartolino da Padova

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 109 (2/2); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 35v;
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 18 (2/2).

Facsimiles

Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 173.
2. Italian Secular Music: Bartolino da Padova, Egidius de Francia, Giulielmus de Francia, Don Paolo da Firenze, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1975. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IX, p. 10 (Pn6771).

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 245.

Literature

1. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940, p. 19, ex. 23a., p. 20, ex. 26.
2. GOLDINE, Nicole. 'Fra Bartolino da Padova, musicien de cour', Acta Musicologica, XXXIV (1962), p. 149.
3. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
4. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

Text

Amor che nel pensier mio viv'e regna
d'est'alta donna sopra ogn'altra insegna

Amor, Amor ogni pensier m'enduce
con dolce affanno ben servire amore.
per= che d'ogne nobelta traluce
la donna in vista fonte de valore.

Donca ben piaza al mio degno segnore
che mi conservi in questa donna degna.

Translation

O living Love who rules over my thoughts
of this high woman, your best standard-bearer;

O Love, Love, every thought induces me
to serve my beloved with sweet eagerness.
because the lady I see, fountainhead of all virtue.
shines with every sign of nobility.

Therefore may it please you, my worthy Lord
to preserve me in the esteem of this worthy woman.
Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

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

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