In verde prato a padilglon tenduti

madrigal by Jacopo da Bologna

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 14 (2/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 95v-96 (3/3).

Facsimiles

1. The Music of Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Berkeley: University of California, 1954. University of California Publications in Music 5, (Fn26).
2. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 169 (FP).
3. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. The Music of Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Berkeley: University of California, 1954. University of California Publications in Music 5, p. 50 (FP).
2. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 30.
3. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1963. Corpus Mensurablis Musicae 8/IV, p. 9.
4. Italian Secular Music by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze and Jacopo da Bologna, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1967. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VI, p. 97 (Fn26).

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 36.

Literature

1. LI GOTTI, Ettore. La poesia musicale italiana del secolo XIV, Palermo: Palumbo, 1944, p. 54.
2. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'On the technique, origin and evolution of Italian Trecento music', Musical Quarterly, XLVII (1961), pp. 44, 46.
3. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Les compositions à trois voix chez les compositeurs du Trecento', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento I: Certaldo 1959, 1962, pp. 22-23.
4. FELLIN, Eugene C. A Study of Superius Variants in the Sources of Italian Trecento Music: Madrigals and Cacce, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin: 1970, passim.
5. FELLIN, Eugene C. 'The notation-types of Trecento music', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, pp. 211-224.
6. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64, passim.

Recordings

Musik des Trecento um Jacopo da Bologna, Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich, directed by Michel Piguet (1973): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-111 (GER)/ 1C163-30-107/12 (GER).

Text

In verde prato a padiglion tenduti
danzar vidi, cantando, dolze tresca
donne e amanti su per l'erba fresca.

Con tanta chiarità donna m'aparve,
ch'i' presi lena imaginando donde
venissen sì begli occhi e trezze bionde.

Merzé, che 'l tuo poder, Amor, mi vaglia

Translation

On a green field, under stretched pavilions,
I saw women and their lovers dance
on the fresh grass (lovely dance!) and sing meanwhile.

A woman appeared to me of such pure beauty
that I gasped, thinking where such beautiful eyes
and fair tresses might come from.

May your power, o Love, give me strength!

Text revision and translation © Giovanni Carsaniga