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Added Jul 31, 2026
Composer: Andrea Gabrieli
Format: Staff
Language: Italian
Pages: 17 pages
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Ella non sa, se non invan dolersi by Andrea Gabrieli — Lyrics

Ella non sa, se non invan dolersi, chiamar fortuna e il cielo empio e crudele. Perché, ahi lassa! dicea non mi sommersi quando levai ne l’Ocean le vele?– Zerbin che i languidi occhi ha in lei conversi, sente più doglia, ch’ella si querele, che de la passion tenace e forte che l’ha condutto omai vicino a morte. Così, cor mio, vogliate, le diceva dopo ch’io sarò morto, amarmi ancora, come solo il lasciarvi è che m’aggreva qui senza guida, e non già perch’io mora: che se in sicura parte m’accadeva finir de la mia vita l’ultima ora, lieto e contento e fortunato a pieno morto sarei, poi ch’io vi moro in seno. Ma poi che ’l mio destino iniquo e duro vol ch’io vi lasci, e non so in man di cui; per questa bocca e per questi occhi giuro, per queste chiome onde allacciato fui, che disperato nel profondo oscuro vo de lo ’nferno, ove il pensar di vui
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About Ella non sa, se non invan dolersi

This expressive Italian madrigal by Andrea Gabrieli is set for three female voices (SSA). The text, an excerpt from a longer poem, depicts a lament. The speaker, having set sail, questions why she did not perish at sea, lamenting her fate and calling the heavens cruel. A character named Zerbin, observing her distress, feels more pain for her complaints than for his own enduring passion that brings him near death. He expresses to his beloved that after his death, she should still love him, as it is only leaving her that grieves him, not his impending demise. He would die content and fortunate if his final hour were spent within her embrace, but his cruel destiny forces him to leave her, uncertain into whose hands he must entrust her.