Volume 14 (2008) No. 1
Alexander Fisher
Celestial Sirens and Nightingales: Change and Assimilation in the Munich Anthologies of Georg Victorinus
Example 5: Giacomo Finetti, Tota pulchra es (Siren coelestis, no. 89); Based on Canticles 4:7–8 (download in pdf)
| Tota pulchra es, O
Maria, et macula non est in te. Veni de Libano, sponsa mea, veni, coronaberis de capite Amana, de vertice Sanir et Hermon, de cubilibus leonum, de montibus pardorum. |
You are altogether beautiful, O
Mary; there is no flaw in you. Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of leopards. |
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| O Maria, veni, coronaberis. Tota pulchra es, O Maria, et macula non est in te. |
O Mary, come with me, depart. You are altogether beautiful, O Mary; there is no flaw in you. |