L'Avvelenato- Camillo "il Bianchino" (Verona) 1629
[Fragment from English and Scottish popular Ballads Volume 1, Child's headnotes to Lord Randal. From New opera, Fliegendes Blatt von Verona, 1629 by Camillo, called the Bianchino, who was blind Florentine singer.
This is a version called L'Avvelenato (The Poisoned) of which another fragment was collected in 1656 and longer complete versions in the 1860s. Some texts of L'Avvelenato were called, "incatenatura of the Cieco Fiorentino," ("the song of the blind Florentine" after Camillo's fragment. Only three lines of the Italian "Lord Randall" ballad were part the of broadside in Verona in 1629 (it was a collection of lines from various songs).
R. Matteson 2018]
[L'Avvelenato.] As sung by a blind Florentine, Camillo, called "the Bianchino":
'Dov' andastu iersera,["Where did you go last night]
Figliuol mio ricco, savio e gentile? [My son, rich, wise and kind?]
Dov' andastu iersera'?"[Where did you go last night?"]
It's prefaced by these four lines which reveal some of the story:
"lo vo' finire con questa d'un amante [I want to end this with a lover]
Tradito dall' amata.[Betrayed by the beloved.]
Oh che l'รจ si garbata [Oh that is it is the kind]
A cantarla in ischiera: [To be sung altogether:]