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Medieval Music Database

Tanto di mio cor doglio

ballata by Bartolino da Padova

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 117v (2/2); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 34v.

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. 189.
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. 90.

Text Editions

1. CORSI, Giuseppe. Rimatori del Trecento, Turin: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, 1969, p. 1081.
2. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 259.

Literature

1. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
2. 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

Tanto di mio cor doglio
ch'i' non so ben voler quel ch'i' mi voglio.

Poco mi val pensare
d'alcun bene o diletto
nT di quell'operare
mai conchiudo l'effetto.
ch'a forza e a mio dispetto
quanto pi· mi rivesto, pi· mi spoglio.

L'uom dice pur fortuna.
e a me par destino
del sole e de la luna
d'ogni poter divino:
da l'altro a l'un mattino
m'inganna el tempo e non so ch'io mi voglio.

Translation

I grieve in my heart because
I don't know how to wish for what I want.

It's no use thinking
of some benefit or pleasure.
I never bring to fruition
what I began to do.
because, inevitably and in spite of myself.
the more clothes I put on, the more I take them off.

Some say it's a question of chance.
but to me it seems destiny.
fated by the sun, the moon
or every divine power.
From one day to the next
time deceives me and I don't know what I want.

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga



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


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