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Medieval Music Database

Se gia seguir altra che te non volli

ballata by Paolo da Firenze

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 105v-106 (3/1);
Perugia: Library of Biancamaria Brumani and Galliano Ciliberti, MS fragment, fol. 95v (3/1).

Facsimiles

BRUMANA, Biancamaria and Galliano CILIBERTI. 'Nuove fonti per lo studio dell'opera di Paolo da Firenze', Rivista Italiana di Musicologica, XXII (1987), fig. 5.

Editions

1. Italian Secular Music, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1978. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XI, p. 126.
2. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta and Ursula Günther, Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/VI. [forthcoming]

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 356.

Literature

1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966), p. 88.
2. BRUMANA, Biancamaria and Galliano CILIBERTI. 'Nuove fonti per lo studio dell'opera di Paolo da Firenze', Rivista Italiana di Musicologica, XXII (1987): 3-17.

Text

Se gia seguir altra che te non volli
ben seguist'altrui.
donna non tanto tuo quant'io tuo fui.

ChT, se fedel i' fu', ferm'e costante
a te com'a signor de la mie vita.
dovevi non voler mai altro amante.
perchT t'ho sempre con amor seguita.
E or da me per altrui se' fugita
e io da te per lui.
Vedrai s'andra fedel, quant'io, costui.

Translation

I never wished to court any but you;
you, woman, seek another
who is not so much your servant as I was.

Whereas, if I was loyal, steady and true
to you as to the lady of my life.
you never should have sought another lover
because I have always courted you with love.
And now you have fled from me for another man.
and I because of him have fled from you.
I doubt he'll follow you as loyally as I did.

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga



Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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