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Medieval Music Database

Tra verdi frondi in isola 'n sul fonte

madrigal by Paolo da Firenze

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 36v-37 (2/2), 46v-47 (2/2) (identical with ff. 36v-37).

Editions

1. 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. 174.
2. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta and Ursula Günther, Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/VI. [forthcoming]

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 286.

Literature

1. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940, p. 33, ex. 42.
2. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim.
3. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.

Text

Tra verdi frondi in isola 'n sul fonte
vidi un'orsa ch'odorava un fiore
che fu gia donna 'nfiammata d'amore.
......

Trassemi Venus al ciel dilettoso.
s8 ch'ancor tremo di fredd'amoroso.

Translation

Among a clump of green frondage, near the fountain.
I saw a she-bear smelling a flower.
She was once a woman inflamed with love.
......

Venus took me to her delectable heaven.
so that I still tremble with amorous chill.


Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga



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


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