Alessandro Scarlatti - Infirmata, vulnerata (Motet)
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Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
Infirmata vulnerata is a Latin motet by Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti, based on a poem by an unknown author. Unlike the musician's other motets, the subject is not religious, but borrows from a love subject, which can easily bring it closer to the group of 820 chamber cantatas written by Scarlatti. The work is dated October 16, 1702 and was published with several other works, in Naples the same year and republished in Amsterdam in 1707.
Infirmata, vulnerata (Original Latin)
Infirmata, vulnerata
puro deficit amore
et liquescens gravi ardore
languet anima beata.
O care, o dulcis amor,
quomodo mutatus es mihi in crudelem,
quem numquam agnovisti infidelem?
Vulnera, percute, transfige cor.
Tormenta pati non timeo.
Cur, quaeso, crudelis
es factus gravis?
Sum tibi fidelis,
sis mihi suavis.
Vicisti, amor, vicisti,
et cor meum cessit amori.
Semper gratus, desiderabilis,
semper, semper eris in me.
Veni, o care, totus amabilis,
in aeternum diligam te.
[Da capo] Semper gratus, desiderabilis,
semper, semper eris in me... In me.