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Astio non mor_ mai
Three-voice ballata by Andrea da Firenze

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 187 (3/3).

Facsimiles

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

Editions

1. TAUCCI, Raffaello. 'Fra Andrea dei Servi, organista e compositore del Trecento', Rivista di studi storia sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria, II (1935), p. 104.
2. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 343.
3. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1964. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/V, p. 3.
4. Italian Secular Music, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1977. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century X, p. 4.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 289.

Literature

1. TAUCCI, Raffaello. 'Fra Andrea dei Servi, organista e compositore del Trecento', Rivista di studi storia sull'Ordine dei Servi di Maria, II (1935), p. 104.
2. KÖNIGSLÖW, Annamarie von. Die italienischen Madrigalisten des Trecento, Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch, 1940, p. 35.
3. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Per l'origine e la storia della "caccia" e del "madrigale" trecentesco', Rivista musicale italiana, XLVIII (1946), p. 314.
4. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64, passim.

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

Astio non mor8 mai.

Nel foco sempre ardendo.
consumasi stridendo
con dolore e con guai.

Le bilance al cul porta
per tener ragion torta
a tuta gente mai.

Ignudo, in cuffia e in braca.
sotto la rota vaca
sanza levarsi mai.

Translation

Resentment never dies.

In ever burning fire
he consumes himself, shrieking
with pain and lamentations.

He keeps the scales of justice
behind his back, and to all people, ever.
he renders crooked justice.

Naked, in coif and breeches.
he lazes under the wheel.
without ever getting up.
Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

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

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