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Perch'i' non sepi passar ch'a 'n tal varchoballata by Paolo da Firenze SourcesParis: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 25 (3/1).Editions1. 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. 158.2. 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 EditionsCORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 285.Recordings[Landini], Hortus Musicus, directed by Andres Moustonen: Chant du Monde LDX 78.666 (FRA).TextPerch'i' non sepi passar ch'a un tal varcodov'Amor tende l'arco. lasso! sento quanto 'l suo stral martira. Non dico "lasso" sol perch'i' duol senta. ma perchT l'arc'alenta verso l'oggett'ond'entras'al core. TranslationAs I could only go through such a passagewhere Love lies in wait with his bow. alas! I now feel how much his arrow torments me. I do not say "alas!" only because I feel pain. but because the bow slackens towards the target whose heart its arrow pierced. Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga |
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