Salve flos tusce - Vos nunc etrusce (Guillaume Dufay)

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• (Posted 2004-09-21)  CPDL #07912:      (Finale 2001)

Editor: Ilse Baltzer (submitted 2004-09-21).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 196 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: typeset by Sabine Cassola, revised October 6, 2004.

General Information

Title: Salve flos tusce - Vos nunc etrusce
Composer: Guillaume Dufay

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: The text, said to be by Dufay himself, is in praise of the Florentines.

Original text and translations

Latin text

I. Salve flos tusce gentis, Florencia, salve,
o salve italici gloria magna soli,
salve que doctos felix tot mater alumnos
tot generas magno consilio atque side,
que tot prestantes mira integritudine,
que tot prestantes generas religione viros.
Salve cui debet quodcunque est artis honeste,
ingenii quicquid, quicquid et eloquii est.
Salve que fama totum diffusa per orbem
et vehis et natos mittis ad astra tuos,
Nunc cecini et grate voces placuere canore
premia mercedes nec periere simul;
fessus ego haud cantu, vox est de fessa canendo,
sed tu carminibus vive cananda meis.

II. Vos nunc etrusce iubar, salvete puelle,
sic sedet hoc animo nec sine amore moror;
stant foribus nimphis similes, stant naiades
utque aut amozonides aut procaces,
Venus servet in amplexus atque oscula dulcia,
Quisque si semel has viderit, captus amore cadet.
Ite, dee mundi, vester per secula cuncta
Guillermus cecini, natus est ipse Fay.