Jussi Lehtipuu (bass) sings "Che farai Melisseo" by Angelo Notari at Sastamala Gregoriana Festival 2008, accompanied by Michael Fields on theorbo. <br /><br />Che farai, Meliseo? Morte rifiutati <br />Poichè Filli t'ha posto in doglie e lagrime <br />Nè più, come solea, lieta salutati. <br />Dunque, amici pastor, ciascun consacrime <br />Versi sol di dolor, lamenti e ritimi; <br />E chi altro non può, meco collagrime. <br />A pianger col suo pianto ognun incitimi, <br />Ognun la pena sua meco communiche, <br />Ben ch'il mio duol da sè dì e notte invittimi. <br /> Jacopo Sannazzaro, L'Arcadia, XII <br /><br />"What will you do, Meliseo? Death rejects you <br />though Phyllis has plunged you into grief and tears <br />and smiles at you no longer as she did. <br />So, shepherd friends, let each of you dedicate <br />verses of nothing but sorrow to me, and laments; <br />and those who can do nothing else, come weep with me. <br />Let each man’s tears stimulate my own; <br />let each communicate his grief to me, <br />even though mine, unaided, torments me day and night."
