Sources used for collation: Vi-1587; Am-1587; AnGa-1593; Sc-heir-1603; AnGa-1605
Other sources: Ph-1594; Ka-1608; Ph-1610
Measures | Sources – Voices | Variants | ||
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63 |
|
f4 instead of g4 |
Lines | Sources – Voices | Variants |
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4 | dolc sguardo | |
5 | saeto | |
7 | n’andò ’alma | |
8 | torna ma | |
8 | torna maa |
“Vattene, anima mia”, dissi narrando
Giovanni Battista Nicolucci, known as ‘Pigna’
Madrigal: AbAbccDD
“Vattene, anima mia”, dissi narrando | “Depart from me, my soul”, | |
A la mia vaga stella | I said, narrating my love in rhymes | |
L’amor mio in rime, quando | to my fair star, when | |
A un dolce sguardo, ch’ella | she shot such a sweet glance | |
5 | Mi saettò nel viso, | into my face: |
Io fui così conquiso | I was so conquered | |
Che n’andò l’alma nei lucenti rai, | that my soul was raptured into her sparkling eyes, | |
E l’alma che n’andò non torna mai. | and the soul that left never returns. |
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).
None – preserved in manuscript form in Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, 252.
G. Battista Pigna, Il ben divino: inedito a cura di Neuro Bonifazi (Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1965), 87.