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Seguendo un me' sparver, che me menava<br />

de bosco en bosco, a la stasi<strong>on</strong> piu bella,<br />

restiti ad una voce che cantava.<br />

E presso a me vidi una pasturella:<br />

per guardar de soe pecore, filava<br />

la lana lor, per farse una g<strong>on</strong>ella.<br />

Questa cant<strong>and</strong>o piu me vaghezava<br />

e io lassiai e stientime cum ella,<br />

che piu che lo sparver me deletava.<br />

perch6 c<strong>on</strong> l'una man e cum la boca<br />

disse - Vien qua - zit<strong>and</strong>o via la r~ca.~'<br />

The madrigal form lends itself well to erotic male fantasies. By following a hawk <strong>on</strong>e<br />

may find not <strong>on</strong>ly a shepherdess, but an entire voyeuristic feast:51<br />

Di riva in riva mi guidava Amore:<br />

cerc<strong>and</strong>o un mio sparver, a pi& d' un m<strong>on</strong>te<br />

trovai bagnar piu d<strong>on</strong>ne ad una f<strong>on</strong>te.<br />

Eravi di bilta nomata Elena,<br />

lo cui piacer mi facea gir pensoso<br />

e poi mi fe' di lei veder gioioso.<br />

Poi chinai gli occhi per l'<strong>on</strong>esto <strong>and</strong>are<br />

e temeroso mi scostai da l'acque,<br />

ch'era ciascuna come prima nacque.<br />

Cant<strong>and</strong>o di riviera intorno a l'acque<br />

tutte si moss<strong>on</strong> per un verde piano<br />

e trovai lo sparvero a mano a mano.<br />

A madrigal by Alesso di Guido D<strong>on</strong>ati indulges ano<strong>the</strong>r male fantasy-<strong>the</strong> high-<br />

class lady, disguised as a shepherdess, who <strong>of</strong>fers himself to him. In this scene, <strong>the</strong> lady<br />

has already been found as a result <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> poet being out hunting. The madrigal essentially<br />

tells what happens next, something that is simply implied in most o<strong>the</strong>r madrigals.<br />

Ibid., 105 1.<br />

5' Ibid., 1032.

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