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The article presents information about madrigals published in Luca Marenzio's only book for four voices. It is a setting of the concluding lines of eclogue VIII from Jacopo Sannazaro's book Arcadia. Marenzio drew extensively from the works of Sannazaro. The madrigal discussed in the article is different as far as the metrical structure of the text, i.e. tercets of versi sdruccioli is concerned. An sdrucciolo line is one in which the last accented syllable is followed by two unaccented ones. Or to put it differently, the ending of the line coincides with a proparoxytone word.