Fuggio quel disleale vago augellin cui la tua man nodria

Sigismondo d'India’s madrigal Fuggio quel disleale vago augellin assumes the voice of a speaker fleeing a fickle lover, who is compared to a disloyal bird nurtured by a fair hand. The text laments the ingratitude of the beloved, contrasting it with the speaker’s own fidelity. This secular Italian work for SSATB voices expresses the pain of unrequited love, where the one who gave life now deals death. D’India was a significant composer of the early Baroque era, known for his expressive madrigals and solo motets that often explored dramatic contrasts and intense emotional states within the Italian polyphonic tradition.