Per seguir la sperança |
To pursue the hope |
Per seguir la sperança che m'ancide, Nè vogli'a tte, cagion di tanta pena, Pero che lla ragion pur mi rafrena, Ma ben ti pregho, amor, de! non soffrire, |
To pursue the hope which kills me, Neither do I want to reveal my great For reason still holds me back, But I beg you, Love, not to let me perish |
(Lyrics taken from the critical edition of Landini's works, The works of Francesco Landini, ed. by Leonard Ellinwood, with textual collation by William A. McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1945), p.271-72.)