as much as the lovely river that always weeps with me. you take your nature from her living light: how I envy you those true and graceful acts! Vero. To Petrarch, Italy was the heir and successor of ancient Rome, the civilizing mission of which he glorified in his Latin epic Africa (critical edition, 1926), dealing with the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage. Previous Stanza 1 Next Stanza 3. If good, why this effect: bitter, mortal? Petrarch stated that the "ancient valour in Italian hearts is not yet dead" in Italia Mia. she is always present, and I am all consumed. From what part of the heavens, from what idea, that beautiful joyful face, in which she chose. that no Zeuxis, Praxiteles, or Phidias made. ‘S’i’ fussi stato fermo a la spelunca’, 167. and open them, Father, soften them, set them free: You lords to whose hands Fortune entrusts the reins. Editorial note from William Fredlund: This letter was probably written in 1344 from Parma. Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATTB Genre: Secular, Madrigal. How did a heart gather so much virtue to itself. how can you be in me so, if I do not consent? 1675 - 1750), The Getty Open Content Program, From time to time they are less harsh to me. hides himself there, and no more appears. I’ve dared to assail my enemy, quiet and humble, my good, my bad, my death and life, had been. any in this world, and you, naked dust and shadows. Machiavelli later quoted four verses from Italia Mia in The Prince, which looked forward to a political leader who would unite Italy "to free her from the barbarians". Italia Mia Stanza 2. Conditions and Exceptions apply. And the clear light that shone all around, quenched the sun: and the cord was wrapped. but often with the sounds of my own sighs. flaming more brightly among the dew and frost. Petrarch's friendship with the republican Cola di Rienzi inspired the famous ode Italia mia. Never has divine light overcome mortal vision, of the beautiful, sweet, gentle, black and white. Italian, long eclipsed by the humanists’ preoccupation with Greek and Latin, rose to a new and conscious dignity as a medium of serious literary expression. But they don't. Not Ticino, Po, Varo, Arno, Adige or Tiber. is always before my eyes to my sweet distress: war is my state, filled with grief and anger. If it were not so, the sight of her would be. I feed the heart on sighs, it asks no more. In doing so, they are meant to re-discover what it means to be a proper leader and a good Italian. in us, as some believe) under which I was born. will turn you towards your soul-delighting land. a guileless butterfly accustomed to the light. the hope or the fear, the flame or the ice. ‘Poi che ’l camin m’è chiuso di Mercede,’. So, do the same yourself: I see no other aid. offered itself to my heart with such majesty. she’d burn the Rhine however deeply frozen. believing I was in heaven, not there where I was. he no longer drank river water but blood! twirling, seemed to say: ‘Here Love rules’. If bad, then why is every suffering sweet? ‘Florentine Street Scene with Twelve Figures’ - Anonymous (ca. but go naked in the wind, barefoot on thorns: now you live so that the stench rises to God. © Copyright 2000-2021 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved. ‘Amor fra l’erbe una leggiadra rete’, 182. He calls upon “Italia mia” (my Italy) to end “this mad disgrace” where Italian fights against Italian thus indirectly serving the interests of … towards which you spur and whip me harshly. I seem to hear her, hearing the branches and breeze, and the leaves, and the birds lamenting, and the water. 1640), The Rijksmuseum. and the little tree I adorn and praise in verse. to that far light unfurls his wings in vain. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 formally ended the rule of the Holy Roman Emperors in Italy from the beautiful branches into her lap. Sennuccio, I saw him, and the bow he bends. In "Italia mia," Petrarch lays it down for the Italian nobility: you have a civic duty to behave responsibly and compassionately to your people and the land. since the day that Adam first opened his eyes. its desire heads straight towards the breeze. ‘Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte’, 130. not through water poured out by the eyes. 7/14. of those who have reached the other shore. or sculpted it rather, engraved her gentle words. From those four sparks, but not merely those. Metro: canzone formata da sette stanze di sedici versi ciascuna (endecasillabi e settenari), con schema della rima AbCBaCcDEeDdfGfG e un congedo di dieci versi il cui schema riprende la sirma (, La canzone, unico componimento di tema politico del, L'autore paragona implicitamente la decadenza politica dell'Italia del Trecento alla grandezza della civiltà di Roma antica, quando l'Italia era centro del mondo e i Romani infliggevano dure sconfitte ai popoli germanici (visti come rozzi e inferiori culturalmente) tra cui ora, colpevolmente, vengono arruolate le truppe mercenarie al servizio dei signori italiani: Petrarca cita gli esempi illustri di Gaio Mario che debellò i Teutoni nella battaglia di Aquae Sextiae, nel 102 a.C., bevendo poi nel fiume Arc acqua mista al sangue dei nemici, e Giulio Cesare (citato attraverso una preterizione) che sconfisse più volte i Germani, mentre ora questi popoli (paragonati a belve selvagge) convivono con gli italiani inermi e vengono arruolati come mercenari dai signori, che farebbero meglio invece a lasciarli in Germania da cui l'Italia è opportunamente divisa dalle Alpi. since, still dissatisfied with my shameful exile, from that hard heart, and light a thousand. ‘Quand’io v’odo parlar sí dolcemente’, 144. as were shown to me in that first season: such that, trembling with the fierce light. sees him, except Love, who never leaves his side. I speak in harsh rhymes, devoid of sweetness: first assault, when I had no other weapons. causing it to die, and the other to weep: so I am always running towards the sunlight of her eyes, fatal to me, from which so much sweetness comes. the sorrowful cloud that condenses in my heart. that being together is a rare and brief thing. whether to believe him, live between the two. are sad and lonely, and night obscures them. ties a man’s tongue, and daunts his spirit: who utters while he burns is in slight fire. of all the finest fruits, unless eternal Jove. Love placed me as a target for his arrow. except that sun whose rays are alive with love: and I go singing (oh, my unwise thoughts!). © Copyright 2002 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved. and you still climb by paths from hill to hill. Of its 366 poems, the vast majority are in sonnet form, though the sequence contains a Page 4/24 Things are quite different when we consider the relationship with Petrarch’s political and civil poems. are the breeze (l’aura) before which my life flies. is born the great fire in which I live and burn, Florence perhaps might have her poet today. to catch the thought, let alone in verse or rhyme: the other is not: since my lovely fire is such, she treats all equally: and he who thinks to fly. Then finding itself full of the bitter and the sweet. and my thoughts and wishes changed within, so that I say: ‘These are the last spoils of me, if heaven intends me for so happy a death.’, But that sound that binds the senses with its sweetness. Few have read his works. lasts only a little time in a lady’s heart. receives, disdains, calls to me, and spurns me. A ciascun remo un penser pronto et rio che la tempesta e 'l fin par ch'abbi a scherno; la vela rompe un vento humido eterno di … I show myself so full of humility, truly. wishes me not to live, but does not remove my bar. all their art, and all their deepest care, to set in place this living light, where Nature. L'una m'à posto in doglia, et mie speranze acerbamente à spente; l'altra mi tèn qua giú contra mia voglia, et lei che se n'è gita seguir non posso, ch'ella nol consente. since with those weapons you could heal my hurt. and the sea without a wave lies in its bed, I look, think, burn, weep: and she who destroys me. One imprisons me, who neither frees nor jails me. The power of Petrarch’s Italian resided in his collection of his own short poems, the sonnets, in the book called Il Canzoniere (The Big Songbook). that made all the people there turn to marble. che pensi? though its shadow gives more sadness than delight. to fall from such lovely eyes beneath the sun. Love pierces me, dazzles me and melts me: and your angelic singing and your speech. Song, if you had as much beauty as you wished. ‘L’avara Babilonia à colmo il sacco’, 140. ‘Amore, che ’ncende il cor d’ardente zelo,’, 183. I shall be free of hope and free of error. so that I see nothing else, nor wish to see, Song, you well know that what I say is nothing. Happy, fortunate flowers, herbs born in grace. Petrarch was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists 2. Pietro Bembo , who exercised tremendous influence in the first half of the century, contributed greatly to this development. Gazing at the sunlight of those calm lovely eyes. despite the waves, the wind, and sail, and oars. and made them both lay down their weapons. at one time it flowered, flows elsewhere. is better than to joy in another: you swear it, When that time and place come to my thoughts, I’m all sulphur and tinder, the heart ablaze. avrem mai pace?’, 151. alla Vergine. Petrarch's cry for peace in the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is threefold: he invokes spiritual, societal, and teleological peace. I care for no other good, long for no other bait. It is also a minority language in Austria and Switzerland, as well as in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, which were once Italian colonies. When my passion, that leads and rules me, escapes its usual curbs from time to time, it finds her who reads the fear and daring. but to the tree that’s noblest in heaven. those times when she was sweet and peaceable. ‘O d’ardente vertute ornate et calda’, 147. so that I’ve often, longing for lovely branches, I follow where I heard the call from heaven. Into the sweet shade of the lovely leaves. if only too much of my sunlight were not lost. and tremble in midsummer, burn in winter. ai Signori italiani. moves me to smiles and tears, in hope and fear. Since it can’t carry there to the four corners, of the world, let that lovely country hear it. what is the purpose of these foreign swords? found alone, and so it turns to the heights. counted the stars one by one, or enclosed, the waves in a little glass, as for fresh thought, to be born in me, of telling in so small a space, all places that this flower of noble beauty, remaining still herself, has scattered her light. which is always so near to me, and so far. ‘Non d’atra et tempestosa onda marina’, 152. Note: The Emperor Constantine the Great (d. 337AD) was wrongly thought in the Middle Ages to have granted the Papacy temporal power in the West, by the document called the Donation of Constantine. ‘Or che ’l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace’, 165. This translation from James Harvey Robinson and H. W. Rolfe, Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (New York, 1898). In "Italia mia," Petrarch urges the Italian nobility to search deep in their hearts for some of that noble Roman blood that surely still runs through them. ‘Italia mia, benché ’l parlar sia indarno’ My Italy, though words cannot heal the mortal wounds so dense, I see on your lovely flesh, at least I pray that my sighs might bring some hope to the Tiber and the Arno, and the Po, that sees me now sad and grave. neither yes nor no sounds wholly in my heart. who is like herself alone, and no one else. with greater flow when the sun’s in Taurus: but more at the time I first saw my lady. Italia mia, anche se le parole sono inutili a sanare le piaghe mortali che vedo così numerose nel tuo bel corpo, voglio almeno che i miei sospiri siano quali il Tevere, l'Arno e il Po, dove ora mi trovo pieno di dolore e preoccupazione, si aspettano da me.O rettore del cielo [Dio], io chiedo che la pietà che ti portò in terra ti induca a rivolgerti al tuo amato e nobile paese. cares neither for your force, nor any other: without the need to tack from side to side. that comes with human face and angel’s form. eyes in which Love gilds and sharpens his arrows. 1800, The Rijksmuseum. towards the highest and most helpful peak: from there I begin to measure out my suffering. in the shape of a man who thinks and weeps and writes. where he, who darkens and bathes mine, lives. Now come what must: I’m not alone in growing old: only my longing does not alter with the years: truly I fear the brief life that cannot last. in the loving breeze that brought the new season. and her guards burned as they burn within. like snow in sunlight, or wax in the fire. ‘Le stele, il cielo et gli elementi a prova’, 155. Euphrates, Tigris, Nile, Erno, Indus, or Ganges. and on green grass, and in a beech trunk. her death, which is announced in no. of the one dies smiling: if of the other he’s saved. with her eyes, and shatter all its sharp rocks: the rest is marble that moves and breathes: nor with all her disdain, nor her dark looks. on a high hill, or deep in a marshy vale. flies in its wanderings into someone’s face. Love that lights burning eagerness in the heart. ‘Constantine Burning Memorials’ - Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596 - 1669), The Getty Open Content Program. write lofty and joyful thoughts, to the sound of water. she weeps at my good fortune, laughs at my tears. But since my ground no longer yields reeds, with the moisture from that rock, I must follow, another star, and, from my native fields, reap. readier than now to grant what I hope and wish. to reveal my ill-conceived thoughts to her. This article discusses how Petrarch's self-portrayal as a spokesman for peace, armed with quill and inkpot, is brought forward in the canzone "Italia mia benché 'l parlar sia indarno" and in his epistles of the 1350s. Italia mia, ben che ’l parlar sia indarno PETRARCH FROM THE ITALIAN OF CARDUCCI Endnotes LOVE SONGS OF PETRARCH Era il giorno ch’al sol si scoloraro ... are conversant with the Italian language, Petrarch is little more than a bright name. so filled with sweetness were the wind and air. His son Cardinal Giovanni was Petrarch’s patron, another son Giacomo was Bishop of Lombez in the Pyrenees. But the lovely land and the delightful river. That "vulgar" bit in the Latin title isn't Petrarch being down on himself. In 1348 both Laura and Colonna died of the plague, and in the next years Petrarch devoted himself to the cause of Italian unification, pleaded for the return of the papacy to Rome, and served the Visconti of Milan. Reaching the end of this dark day, remembering. cannot withstand such shifting suffering now. though the sum of it is guilty of my death? and her face, her speech, her sweet smile. Night leads its starry chariot in its round. ‘Quando Amor I belli occhi a terra inchina’, 169. the drawing of a long breathy immeasurably long; like that vast interval of heart-beats which precedes Shakespeare’s ‘Since Cleopatra died.’I can think of no other passage in literature that has in it the same wide spaces of emotion. sweet and bitter, so I’m in fear and longing: the birdsong was never so soft and quiet. ‘Amor m’à posto come segno a strale,’, 134. loosed hair of such fine gold on the breeze? 133. Will I ever know truce? flames her sighs, and her tears were crystal. like a star the sun obscures with its rays: the more beautifully my thoughts depict her. of what her lovely gaze does not include: so if her harshness or my stars still hurt me. so sweetly, that, from then, all other sights. If there is a stream or a fountain on a solitary slope. one rested on the ground, and one in the water. O noble soul decked out with burning virtue. since it is the season, and other branches. The world has never seen such graceful branches, the wind has never stirred such emerald leaves. Description: External websites: Original text … You might have guessed by the name of this form that we're witnessing the very beginning of this special type of poetry in "Italia mia" and the other canzoni in this collection. not deigning to try his strength in other ways, rains such keen pleasure from her lovely eyes. If my state’s evil, what’s the use of grieving? ‘Mirando’l sol de’ begli occhi sereno,’, 174. ‘Po, ben puo’ tu portartene la scorza’, 181. Within the Canzoniere Petrarch gathered together poems he had been collecting for decades, beautiful small poems, almost all about love. Rhône, Iber, Rhine, Seine, Elbe, Loire, Ebro: could lessen the fire that vexes my sad heart. And if I consent, I am greatly wrong in sorrowing. those two faithful stars of mine so sparkle, that no other light can inflame and guide, What a miracle she is, when she sits among. By Petrarch. she has closed the passes in heaven and earth. and I am in this state, lady, because of you. but soon to be crossed, where hopes are realised: I’m forced to take another way, and steeper. Note: An attack on the Papal Court at Avignon (Babylon) and a vision of a reformed Papacy (the new sultan) with its seat in Rome (Baghdad). that the berserkers from there, that backward race. not Jupiter and Pallas, but Venus and Bacchus. This humble creature, with bear’s or tiger’s heart. what’s hidden from all others is clear to you. would surely have said her daughter was eclipsed. La situazione storica e politica che fa da sfondo al componimento è la guerra che si svolse tra Obizzo d'Este e Filippino Gonzaga per il possesso della città di Parma, dove risiedeva all'epoca Petrarca. that sole Siren from heaven who’s among us. women and girls with her, and they are beech and fir. True I see the sweet light in the distance. Lines 17-22. ‘Mille piage in un giorno et mille rive’, 178. make me not love her, or not hope for her: though she make me afraid, Love gives me hope. wet with pity: and then I say: ‘Ah, alas, what are you come to, and what are you parted from!’. I, who have found his words sometimes true. ‘Più volte già dal bel sembiante humano’, 171. all to gold, and filled with ancient works. And truly I see how much disdain they have for me. Let the beautiful laurel grow so, on the green bank. In this way time flies, and in the mirror. Rettor del cielo, io cheggio che la pietà che ti condusse in terra O eyes of mine, not eyes now, but fountains! Petrarch's friendship with the republican Cola di Rienzi inspired the famous ode Italia mia. ‘Landscape’ - Anonymous (ca. leaving behind you a much lovelier light. of her whom heaven cannot set distant from me, whom I have in my vision, and seem to see. like a cloud in the wind: and I am hoarse already. Please refer to our Privacy Policy. ‘Amore, Fortuna et la mia mente, schiva’, 127. restrains the spirit from swiftly departing. Between these two opposing, mixed extremes. in clear water. The poet's on the day that I took up this loving burden. There is my heart, and she who steals it from me: from those eyes where, by what fate who knows. ‘S’amor non è, che dunque è quel ch’io sento? I have so much to say to her, I dare not begin. strong tower founded on the highest worth: O flame, O rose scattered on sweet layers. ‘Pace non trovo, et non ò da fa guerra:’, 136. ‘What do you think, my soul? they who spill blood and sell their souls for money? Note: Petrarch would be Florence’s poet. ‘Amor mi sprona in un tempo et affrena’, 180. it might have moved a marble heart to pity: So my heart has been many times lit and spent: I know how I felt, and often it angers me. takes his stand there, and sets up his banner. the Apennines divide, and Alps and sea surround. meeting the sun when he leads on the dawn. with which no mortal thing can be compared. ‘A la dolce ombra de le belle frondi’ (, 143. ‘Questa humil fera, un cor di tigre o d’orsa’, 153. Rettor del cielo, io cheggio; che la pietà che Ti condusse in terra; Ti … Note: Addressed to Geri dei Gianfigliazzi, in reply to a sonnet asking how to placate an angry lady. nor keeps me to herself nor slips the noose: and Love does not destroy me, and does not loose me. and what I see seems dream, shadows, smoke: that made the sun a thousand times jealous: that made the mountains move, and halted rivers. Their scorn is worse, it seem to me, than their harm: more freely, as other’s anger flails you. with God’s anger, wicked fare, and deeds, almost to bursting, and has made its deities. Shivering with heat, burning with cold weather. and clutch at nothing, and embrace the world. However, Italian pronunciation varies greatly between regions. O lone house still whole in its chastity. and if she’s not displeased that for her I sigh. 3. sweet poison, Love, my life will be ended. Note: ‘Woman by nature’ is an adaptation of Virgil Aeneid IV 569, ‘Varium et mutabile semper Femina.’, ‘Suicide of Queen Dido’ - Anonymous, ca. Introduzione . placed in her hands, by him who alone can do so. The Canzoniere made Petrarch famous all over Europe. Jupiter and Pallas represent Justice and Wisdom, Venus and Bacchus, Sensuality and Wine. ‘Ite, caldi sospiri, al freddo core,’, 154. Marius defeated the German tribes in 102BC. And how? fleeing where my great passion spurs me on. Petrarch is not really inventing anything new when he uses this form. ‘Lassare il velo o per sole o per ombra’ I have not seen you, lady, leave off … it sees, turned to what is past, afflict me so. and the sweet bitter grieving that I heard. Italia mia 1, benché ’l parlar sia indarno; a le piaghe mortali; che nel bel corpo 2 tuo sí spesse veggio, piacemi almen che ’ miei sospir’ sian quali; spera ’l Tevero et l’Arno, e ’l Po 3, dove doglioso et grave or seggio. consenting to its lingering path, and mine. ‘Pommi ove ’l sole occide i fiori et l’erba,’, 146. that all the force of her anger fails inside. against madness, and cut short the warring: You are here now: but think of the parting: Note: Addressed to the Italian lords hiring German mercenaries for their internecine wars. The standard Italian language is spoken by Italy’s 60+ million residents. it regrets its eager ventures more deeply: when such is the fruit born of such a root. from you alone proceed, and it seems to you. Will I ever have peace? He's just saying that the work is written in Italian, or the "vulgar tongue." that I burn, freeze, blush and pale in a moment. From Petrarch’s letters: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, CXXVIII (1344?) searching for her, whom I should fly from: she leads such a troop of armed sighs with her, Truly if I am not wrong I see a ray of pity. Or will I have endless war?’, ‘I don’t know what will arise for us: but I think, that seeing our ills will not please her eyes.’, she makes us ice in summer, fire in winter?’, ‘It is not her, but the one who rules her.’, ‘What matter, if she sees, and yet is silent?’, ‘Sometimes her tongue is silent, and her heart. Your thoughts are arrows, and your face the sun, and desire is fire: with which joint weapons. and bear fruit not only flowers and leaves. they who lift their fingers in mock surrender? the reins and spurs that make me twist and turn. Ahi dispietata morte, ahi crudel vita! will rule the world: and we’ll see it turned. leaves me in doubt, he speaks so confusedly. ‘Quando mi vène inanzi il tempo e ’l loco’, 176. 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