Di furto ancor (Giandominico Martoretta)
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- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-11). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 89 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Parts and source available on IMSLP.
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Title: Di furto ancor
Composer: Giandominico Martoretta
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto from Orlando furioso, canto XXXII ottava 42.
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1554 in Il terzo libro de madrigali à 4 voci (Gardano press, Venice)
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Italian text
Di furto ancor oltre ogni vizio rio,
di te, crudele, ho da dolermi molto.
Che tu mi tenga il cor, non ti dico io;
di questo io vo’ che tu ne vada sciolto: 1
dico di te, che t’eri fatto mio,
e poi contra ragion mi ti sei tolto.
Renditi, iniquo, a me; che tu sai bene
che non si può salvar chi l’altrui tiene.
{Translation|English|If she in any manner could have thought, Or hoped to have concealed the intended theft, The bleeding warrior's surcoat, richly wrought, She would, together with his arms, have reft; But at what might be safely hidden, caught, And, grieved at heart, forewent the glorious weft. Him of a beauteous girdle she undrest, And this secured between a double vest.}}
- by William Rose (1775-1843)