" La Verginella e simile ally rosa." Canzonetta, by P.
CIAN-
CHETTINI.
These beautiful lines of ARIOSTO, which in their original or trans- lated form, have attracted the attention of musicians of all countries; were set by BYRDE, and form the poetry of the first Madrigal by an English writer. They will afterwards be found in the Beggar's Opera, in the song '6 Virgins are like the fair flower," adapted to a delightful air of PURCELL'S ; then in Seotta's Azor and Zolloira, to whose music Tom Mooaa wrote the song " Rose of the desert ; " and now CIANCHETTINI has made them the subject of a canzonet. The attempt is not a very successful one, and discovers no musical power at all commensurate with that of the" poetry. The passages are trite, and the (so called) ornaments are more adapted for instrumental than vocal effect.
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