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Sources used for collation: Vi-1587 (T2 not included in the Bass part book of F-Pn); Am-1587; AnGa-1593; Sc-heir-1603; AnGa-1605

Other sources: Ph-1594; Ka-1608; Ph-1610; 159011; 159210; 1594Lost; Ka-1610; D-Rp, Ms A. R. 1011–1017 (motet contrafactum Sacrum coelesti nos lumen)

Measures Sources – Voices Variants
1 Vi-1587 – B2

mensuration sign missing
8

Am-1587

AnGa-1593

Sc-heir-1603

AnGa-1605

 A1

missing
14 Sc-heir-1603 – B1

f2 instead of g2
26 Sc-heir-1603 – C2

e4 instead of d4
45 Sc-heir-1603 – T2

M rest erroneously inserted in-between
49-50 AnGa-1605 – C1

g3 instead of a3
69

Am-1587

AnGa-1593

Sc-heir-1603

AnGa-1605

 C1

missing
Vi-1587 – mensuration sign missing
Am-1587 – AnGa-1593 – Sc-heir-1603 – AnGa-1605 – missing
Sc-heir-1603 – f2 instead of g2
Sc-heir-1603 – e4 instead of d4
Sc-heir-1603 – M rest erroneously inserted in-between
AnGa-1605 – g3 instead of a3
Am-1587 – AnGa-1593 – Sc-heir-1603 – AnGa-1605 – missing
Text
Lines Sources – Voices Variants
1

Vi-1587 – T2

 celeste lnme
4

Am-1587 – C1A1B1

AnGa-1605 – C1A1B1

AnGa-1593 – C1A1

Sc-heir-1603 – C1A1

 dentro a
6

Vi-1587 – C11

Straguaanza
6

Vi-1587 – A110

Stravaganze
6

Vi-1587 – B11

Stravganza
6

Vi-1587 – B25

Stravanga
7

Vi-1587 – B12T22

Am-1587 – C12A12T12B12C22A22T22B22

AnGa-1593 – C12A12A22T12T22

Sc-heir-1603 – C12A12A22T12T22

AnGa-1605 – C12C22A12B12B22

arda in
7

Vi-1587 – C14

mal non
7

Vi-1587 – C12C22,3A24T11,3B12

AnGa-1605 – C24

strug’un
7

Vi-1587 – B21

Am-1587 – C11,2,4,5A11,2,3B11C21,3A24T22,3,4B21,2,3

Sc-heir – T22

strugga un
7

Vi-1587 – T21

strugg’un il core
7

Vi-1587 – T22

strugg’uu core
8

Am-1587 – C3

AnGa-1593 – C3

Sc-heir-1603 – C3

AnGa-1605 – C3

 stravaganza
celeste lnme (Vi-1587 – T2)
dentro a (Am-1587 – C1A1B1)
dentro a (AnGa-1605 – C1A1B1)
dentro a (AnGa-1593 – C1A1)
dentro a (Sc-heir-1603 – C1A1)
Straguaanza (Vi-1587 – C11 )
Stravaganze (Vi-1587 – A110 )
Stravganza (Vi-1587 – B11 )
Stravanga (Vi-1587 – B25 )
arda in (Vi-1587 – B12T22 )
arda in (Am-1587 – C12A12T12B12C22A22T22B22 )
arda in (AnGa-1593 – C12A12A22T12T22 )
arda in (Sc-heir-1603 – C12A12A22T12T22 )
arda in (AnGa-1605 – C12C22A12B12B22 )
mal non (Vi-1587 – C14 )
strug’un (Vi-1587 – C12C22,3A24T11,3B12 )
strug’un (AnGa-1605 – C24 )
strugga un (Vi-1587 – B21 )
strugga un (Am-1587 – C11,2,4,5A11,2,3B11C21,3A24T22,3,4B21,2,3 )
strugga un (Sc-heir – T22 )
strugg’un il core (Vi-1587 – T21 )
strugg’uu core (Vi-1587 – T22 )
stravaganza (Am-1587 – C3)
stravaganza (AnGa-1593 – C3)
stravaganza (Sc-heir-1603 – C3)
stravaganza (AnGa-1605 – C3)

Edition and commentary

Donne, il celeste lume

Cristoforo Castelletti, from the Commedy Le stravaganze d’amore (Madrigale to be sung at the end of Act IV)

Madrigal: xAaBBcC

Donne, il celeste lumeLadies, the celestial light
De gl’occhi vostri, che sì dolce splende,of your eyes, which shines so sweetly,
I nostri petti accende;inflames our hearts;.
Ma l’alma, dentr’a le gran fiamme vive,but our soul does not melt inside the lively flames,
5Non sface, anzi di lor si nutre e vive.and it is nourished and enlived by them instead.
Stravaganza d’Amore,Strange paradox of Love,
Ch’ard’in eterno e mai non strugg’un core.which eternally burns, but never consumes a heart.
Canto terzo (se piace):
Stravaganze d’AmoreStrange paradoxes of Love.

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

Le Stravaganze d’Amore, Comedia di Christoforo Castelletti (Venice: Sella, 1587), 74

Notes

The text printed in the comedy corresponds to Marenzio’s one. On the composer’s role in the intermedia for Cristoforo Castelletti’s Le Stravaganze d’Amore see James Chater, “Castelletti’s “Stravaganze d’amore” (1585): a Comedy with Interludes,” Studi Musicali viii 1979, 85–148.