Jacopo da Bologna

I'll be bringing in a short song in the Italian madrigal style written by Jacopo da Bologna around 1350. It is a tune set to the words of Petrarch's Non al suo amante. The poem-turned-lyrics is reproduced below, along with an English translation.

Non al suo amante più Dïana piacque,
quando per tal ventura tutta ignuda
la vide in mezzo de le gelide acque,

ch’a me la pastorella alpestra e cruda
posta a bagnar un leggiadretto velo,
ch’a l’aura il vago e biondo capel chiuda

tal che mi fece or quand’egli arde ’l cielo
tutto tremar d’un amoroso gielo.

2. Translation by Mark Musa (1996):
Diana never pleased her lover more,
when just by chance all of her naked body
he saw bathing within the chilly waters,
than did the simple mountain shepherdess
please me, the while she bathed the pretty veil
that holds her lovely blond hair in the breeze.
So that even now in hot sunlight she makes me
tremble all over with the chill of love.