Non ha finto amator (Orazio Vecchi)

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  • (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77844:         
Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Original pitch and note values.

General Information

Title: Non ha finto amator
Composer: Orazio Vecchi
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAT
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Canzonette a quattro voci, libro 4 (Orazio Vecchi), no. 8
    2nd published: 1593 in Canzonette a quattro voci, no. 73
Description: The subtitle says that this is an answer to Io son fenice from Vecchi's first book of canzonette à 4.

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Original text and translations

Italian.png Italian text

Non ha, finto amator, la vostra fiamma
Di fè pur una dramma.
E voi volete che mi sia gradita?
La fede sola è de gl’Amanti vita.

La vostra fede è come mole Cera
Ch’al sol si strugga e pera.
E voi volete che mi sia gradita?
La fede sola è de gl’Amanti vita.

E pur senza la fè non v’accorgete
Ch’indarno v’accendete;
Dunque ò fuggite, ò non fingete ch’io
A perfido amator non do il cor mio.

German.png German translation

Angeblicher Liebhaber, Eure Flamme
hat nicht im Geringsten Treue.
Und Ihr wollt, dass sie mir willkommen sei?
Nur die Treue ist für Liebende Leben.

Eure Treue ist wie weiches Wachs,
das an der Sonne sich auflöst und zergeht.
Und Ihr wollt, dass sie mir willkommen sei?
Nur die Treue ist für Liebende Leben.

Doch ohne Treue nehmt Ihr nicht wahr,
dass Ihr Euch vergeblich entzündet;
daher geht entweder oder täuscht nicht vor,
dass ich einem treulosen Liebhaber mein Herz gäbe.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt
English.png English translation

Pretending lover, your flame has not
even a small degree of fidelity.
And you think it would be welcome to me?
Only fidelity is life for lovers.

Your fidelity is like soft wax
that will dissolve and melt away under the sun.And you think it would be welcome to me?
Only fidelity is life for lovers.

But without fidelity you do not discern
that you catch fire in vain;
hence you should either go away or no longer pretend,
that I would give my heart to a perfidious suitor.

Translation by Gerhard Weydt