Da che concetto ha l'arte intera e diva

Da che concetto ha l'arte intera e diva
Le membra e gli atti d'alcun, poi di quello
D'umil materea un simplice modello
E 'l primo parto che da quel deriva
Poi, nel secondo, in pietra alpestra e viva
S'arrogie le promesse del martello
E si rinascie tal concetto bello,
Ch'il suo eterno non è ch 'il prescriva,
Tal di me stesso nacqui e venni prima
Umil model, per opra più perfetta
Rinascer poi di voi, donna alta e digna,
S'el manco adempie, e 'l mio soperchio lima,
Vostra pietà, qual penitenzia aspetta
Mie fiero ardor se mi gastiga e insegna.

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

[ None yet in the database ]

by John Mitchell (1941-) , "When divine Art", op. 72 no. 6 (1989), from Six Sonnets by Michelangelo, no. 6.

GER German (Bettina Jacobson)

Date added to the website: 2008-08-06.

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When divine Art

When divine Art conceives a form or face,
She bids the craftsman for his first essay
To shape a simple model in mere clay:
This is the earliest birth of Art's embrace.
From the live marble in its own space,
His mallet brings into the light of day
A thing so beautiful that who can say
When time shall conquer that immortal grace?
Thus my own model I was born to be
The model of the nobler human self,
Whereto schooled by your pity, lady,
I shall grow each overplus, each deficiency
You will make good. What penance then is due
For my fierce heat, chastened and taught by you?

by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) , "To Vittoria Colonna", from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English

a text in Italian by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) GER

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by John Mitchell (1941-) , "When divine Art", op. 72 no. 6 (1989), from Six Sonnets by Michelangelo, no. 6.

Date added to the website: 2003-11-05.