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Levandome 'l maytino vidi la bella
anonymous madrigal

Sources

Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rossi 215, fol. 5v (2/2).

Facsimiles

1. Il canzoniere musicale del codice vaticano Rossi 215 con uno studio sulla melica italiana del Trecento, facsimile edition by Giuseppe Vecchi, Bologna: Università degli studi di Bologna, 1966. Monumenta lyrica medii aevi italica, III/2.
2. Il Codice Rossi, edited by Nino PIRROTTA, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1960. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/II, p. 27.
2. Italian Secular Music: Anonymous Madrigals and Cacce and the Works of Niccolò da Perugia, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1972. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VIII, p. 58.

Text Editions<

1. LI GOTTI, Ettore. 'Poesie musicali italiane del sec. XIV', Estratto dagli Atti della Reale Accademia di scienze, lettere e arti di Palermo, Ser. IV, IV/2, 1944 (1945), p. 30.
2. SESINI, Ugo. 'Il canzoniero musicale trecentesco del cod. Vat. Rossiano 215', Studi medievali (N.S.), XVI (1943-1950), p. 222.
3. CORSI, Giuseppe. Rimatori del Trecento, Turin: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, 1969, p. 1050.
4. CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 337.

Literature

1. LI GOTTI, Ettore. La poesia musicale italiana del secolo XIV, Palermo: Palumbo, 1944, p. 48.
2. MARTINEZ, Marie L. Die Musik des frühen Trecento, Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1963. Münchener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 9.
3. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Zum Wort-Ton Problem in der Musik des italienischen Trecento', Festschrift Arnold Geering zum 70. Geburtstag, Bern-Stuttgart: P. Haupt, 1972, p. 55.
4. TOLIVER, Brooks. 'Improvisation in the madrigals of the Rossi codex', Acta Musicologica, LXIV (1992), p. 167.

Text

Levandome 'l maytino vidi la bella
che in una fontanella se mirava:
molto lizadramente se spechiava.

Era descalza, centa e despraciata.
Cum le treze avolupate al viso:
ben parea ch'usisse del paradiso.

De violete negre avea zirlanda:
ah, Dio, un'altra volta ne la manda!

Translation

Getting up in the morning I saw the beautiful one
who was looking at herself in a fountain:
very daintily she was using it as a mirror.

She was barefoot, half undressed, with her arms bare
and with her tresses unkempt around her face:
she looked as if she was coming out of Paradise.

She had a garland of dark violets:
may God send her my way another time!Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003