by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
Li angeli electi et l’anime beate
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Li angeli electi et l’anime beate cittadine del cielo, il primo giorno che madonna passò, le fur intorno piene di meraviglia et di pietate. "Che luce è questa, et qual nova beltate? - dicean tra lor - perch’abito sí adorno dal mondo errante a quest’alto soggiorno non salí mai in tutta questa etate". Ella, contenta aver cangiato albergo, si paragona pur coi piú perfecti, et parte ad or ad or si volge a tergo, mirando s’io la seguo, et par ch’aspecti: ond’io voglie et pensier’ tutti al ciel ergo perch’i’ l’odo pregar pur ch’i’ m’affretti.
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- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 346 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) , no title, written 1860 ; composed by Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov.
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