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Sources used for collation: Vi-1587; Am-1587; AnGa-1593; Sc-heir-1603; AnGa-1605

Other sources: Ph-1594; Ka-1608; Ph-1610; 159713

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Lines Sources – Voices Variants
2

Vi-1587 - S2

AnGa-1593 – C2TBS

Sc-heir-1603 – CA2TB

AnGa-1605 – CATBQS1

perch’è dolc’e cara
2

AnGa-1593 – C1AQ

Sc-heir-1603 – A1QS

AnGa-1605 – S2

perch’è dolce e cara
2

Am-1587 – all voices

perché è dolce e cara
5

Am-1587 – C1

de la partenza mia
5

AnGa-1593 – C2A2T2B2Q2S2

Sc-heir-1603 – A2B2

AnGa-1605 – C2A2T2B2Q2

de la partita ria
5

Sc-heir-1603 – C2T2Q2

de la patita ria
perch’è dolc’e cara (Vi-1587 - S2 )
perch’è dolc’e cara (AnGa-1593 – C2TBS)
perch’è dolc’e cara (Sc-heir-1603 – CA2TB)
perch’è dolc’e cara (AnGa-1605 – CATBQS1 )
perch’è dolce e cara (AnGa-1593 – C1AQ)
perch’è dolce e cara (Sc-heir-1603 – A1QS)
perch’è dolce e cara (AnGa-1605 – S2 )
perché è dolce e cara (Am-1587 – all voices)
de la partenza mia (Am-1587 – C1 )
de la partita ria (AnGa-1593 – C2A2T2B2Q2S2 )
de la partita ria (Sc-heir-1603 – A2B2 )
de la partita ria (AnGa-1605 – C2A2T2B2Q2 )
de la patita ria (Sc-heir-1603 – C2T2Q2 )

Edition and commentary

La dipartita è amara

Giovanni Battista Nicolucci, known as ‘Pigna’

Madrigal: aabbcc

La dipartita è amara,Taking leave is bitter,
Ma perché è dolc’e carabut since sweet and dear to me
La giunta del ritorno,is the moment of return,
Da l’infelice giornofrom the unhappy day
5De la partenza riaof cruel departure
Nasce la gioia mia.my happiness is born.

The translations are partially indebited to the ones by Barbara Reynolds in Luca Marenzio, The Complete Six Voice Madrigals. Vol IV: The Fourth Book of Madrigal for Six Voices, ed. John Steele and Suzanne Court (New York: Gaudia, 2002).

Contemporary editions

None – preserved in manuscript form in Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, 252.

Modern editions

G. Battista Pigna, Il ben divino: inedito a cura di Neuro Bonifazi (Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1965), 89.

Notes

The last line refers to the opening of a well-known madrigal by Striggio, Nasce la pena mia, which, in a play on words and meanings, becomes in Pigna Nasce la gioia mia. See James Chater, Luca Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal. 1577–1593 (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1981), vol. I, 11.