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This lively Italian secular madrigal by Giovanni Leonardo Mollica is written for two sopranos and a tenor (SST). Its text describes a mock-heroic battle against love, personified as a cruel mistress. The poet urges all lovers to arm themselves for this contest, where Cupid's arrows are deadly, and the lady's 'great fury' threatens to consume the singer entirely. Despite the threat of death, the poem concludes with a resigned surrender, accepting the perpetual 'war' of love until the mistress is 'thrown to the ground'. The energetic Italian text and its dramatic portrayal of amorous conflict make this a spirited addition to a Renaissance madrigal program.