Queste pungenti spine

Musiche varie
Musiche varie
by Benedetto Ferrari
	Musiche varie a voce sola, book one
Full title	Musiche varie a voce sola
Libretto	Gian Francesco Busenello; Benedetto Ferrari; Giovanni Battista Guarini; Giambattista Marino; Ottavio Orsucci;
Published	1633–1641

"Queste pungenti spine" is a piece written and composed by Benedetto Ferrari and is contained in Book II of his Musiche Varie, published in 1637.^[1] The librettist is Ottavio Orsucci.^[2]

It appears on the following album:

Year	Album	Ensemble	Conductor
2003	Musiche Varie (Album)	Ensemble Artaserse	Philippe Jaroussky

Libretto

Queste pungenti spine

(These piercing thorns)

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Occhi miei, che vedeste Il bell'idolo vostro in preda altrui Perché non vi chiudeste? E tu anima mia Perch'al gran duolo Non te'n fuggisti à volo? Ahi che posso ben dire Ch'il soverchio dolor non fa morire.


My eyes, when you saw your beautiful idol in the claws of others, Why did you not close yourselves? And you, my soul, why did you not fly from the great grief? Ah, what can I say – not even the immense pain makes me die.^[3]^[4]

	Ancient Italian
Occhi miei che vedeste⁽¹⁾ il bell'idolo vostro in preda altrui perche non vi chiudeste e tu anima mia perch'al grā duolo non te'n fuggisti à volo ahi che posso ben dire ch'il soverchio dolor non fà morire.^[5] ⁽¹⁾Originally probably spelled "Ochj miei, ..:", with the "i lunga" replacing the double "i" that would logically appear in the plural.^[6]

Beginning of "Queste pungenti spine"^[2]

↑ "Benedetto Ferrari". OPAC. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Benedetto Ferrari, Musice Varie, Book two: RISM A/I: F 266". IMSLP. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
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