Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli (5th madrigal book)

Claudio Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli
(5th madrigal book)

Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini

Score: www.cpdl.org
Performed a diminished fifth below written pitch.
(The standard a' is a semitone higher, and piece is transposed down a fifth due to the chiavette clef-combination.)

The whole 5th book of madrigals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKTQQ28sSNo&list=PL2k8ekJXk4nUUuhRVUBMtW_D_zcesRuat

Cruda Amarilli, che col nome ancora,
d'amar ahi lasso! amaramente insegni;
Amarilli, del candido ligustro
più candida e più bella,
ma de l'aspido sordo
e più sorda e più fera e più fugace;
poi che col dir t'offendo,
i' mi morrò tacendo.

=== ENGLISH ===

Cruel Amaryllis, who with your name
to love, alas, bitterly you teach.
Amaryllis, more than the white privet pure,
and more beautiful,
but deafer than the deaf asp,
and fiercer and more elusive.
Since telling I offend you,
I shall die in silence.

The English translation cannot show the puns on Amarillys's name in the original Italian.

amar = to love
amaramente = bitterly

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