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Et e pur dunque vero
Staff Notation • Secular, Madrigals
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Et e pur dunque vero by Claudio Monteverdi — Lyrics
Et è pur dunque vero,
dishumanato cor, anima cruda,
che cangiando pensiero
e di fede e d'amor tu resti i gnuda.
d'haver tradito me dati pur vanto,
che la cetera mia rivolgo in pianto.
È questo il guiderdone
de l'amorose mie tante fatiche?
così mi fa ragione,
il vostro reo destin, stelle nemiche.
ma se'l tuo cor è d'ogni fe' ribelle,
Lidia, la colpa è tua non delle stelle.
Beverò, sfortunato,
gl'assasinati miei torbidi pianti,
e sempre adolorato
a tutti gl'altri abandonati amanti,
e scolpirò sul marmo alla mia fede:
Scioccho è quel cor ch'in bella donna crede.
Povero di conforto,
mendico di speranza, andrò ramingo;
e senza salma o porto,
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About Et e pur dunque vero
Monteverdi’s Italian madrigal Et e pur dunque vero paints a scene of bitter betrayal. The discarded lover laments, his heart turned to tears and his lute to sorrow, that his beloved Lidia has changed her mind and abandoned him. He questions whether this is the reward for his devoted efforts, blaming her rebellious heart rather than the stars. He vows to drink his tears and tell other abandoned lovers that any heart believing in a beautiful woman is foolish. He will wander henceforth, poor in comfort and hope, living alone amidst storms, his death not yet arrived.
