Song Cycle by Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)

1. Preghiera di Maria Stuarda

Authorship

by Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1586)

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  O Domine Deus speravi in te.
  O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me!
In dura catena, in misera poena,
  Desidero te;
Languendo, gemendo et genuflectendo
Adoro, imploro ut liberes me!

2. Invocazione di Boezio

Authorship

by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c480-524) , "Metrum XII", from De consolatione philosophiae

Felix qui potuit boni 
Fontem visere lucidum : 
Felix qui potuit [gravis]1 
Terræ solvere vincula. 
[ ... ]

3. Congedo di Girolamo Savonarola

Authorship

by Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola (1452-1498) , Meditatio in psalmum In Te Domine speravi

Premat mundus, insurgant hostes, nihil timeo 
Quoniam in Te Domine speravi,
Quoniam Tu es spes mea,
Quoniam Tu altissimum posuisti refugium Tuum.

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