Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori

General information

Author: Ludovico Ariosto, 1516 in Orlando Furioso. Canto VI ottava 21.

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Marco Antonio Ingegneri — Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori  Italian SAATB
• Benedetto Pallavicino — Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori  Italian SAAAB, SATTB
• Marco Antonio de Pordenon — Vaghi boschetti  Italian SATTB
• Giaches de Wert — Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori  Italian SAATB

Text and translations

Italian text Vaghi boschetti di soavi allori, di palme e d’amenissime mortelle, cedri et aranci ch’avean frutti e fiori contesti in varie forme e tutte belle, facean riparo ai fervidi calori de’ giorni estivi con lor spesse ombrelle; e tra quei rami con sicuri voli cantando se ne giano i rosignuoli.

English translation Small thickets, with the scented laurel gay, Cedar, and orange, full of fruit and flower, Myrtle and palm, with interwoven spray, Pleached in mixed modes, all lovely, form a bower; And, breaking with their shade the scorching ray, Make a cool shelter from the noontide hour. And nightingales among those branches wing Their flight, and safely amorous descants sing. Translation by William Stewart Rose

English translation Beautiful groves of laurels, palms, sweet myrtles, cedars, and citrus trees that fruit and flower at once (set out in different ways, and all so fair), giving shade from the summer sun with their thick canopy: among those branches the nightingales fly securely, singing with joy. Translation by Nicholas Jones