Gjamai non mi comfortto, Rinaldo D'Aquino XIII century ∾ Murmur Mori ‹già mai non mi conforto›

From the album Canzoneta, va! (Jongleurs and Troubadours between Italy and Provence): Gjamai non mi comfortto
Lyrics: Rinaldo D'Aquino (...1227-1281...), BAV, Vat. Lat. 3793, fol. 8v, 13th century
Recorded at Morimondo Abbey
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In Frederick II of Hohenstaufen’s cosmopolitan kingdom, a woman lamented the departure of a crusader: her lover had in fact “taken the cross” and would soon be departing with the Emperor. This widow lamenting asked Rinaldo D’Aquino, one of the greatest poets of the fundamental Sicilian School which flourished at the court of Frederick II, to write verses that could reach for his lover beyond the sea, who was taking part to an endeavour which would eventually become one of the greatest diplomatic operations in history between Christians and Muslims. In “Gjamai non mi comfortto” the
protagonist speaks to the poet naming him “Dolcetto”: the name may be a nickname or an endearing diminutive form of Rinaldo; namely, Rinalduccetto
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