The Deus ti salvet Maria (also known simply as the "SardinianHail Mary") is a devotional song belonging to the Sardinian tradition of the Gosos, written in Sardinian language in the 18th century by the poet Bonaventura Licheri[1] (Neoneli, 1667–1733).
The lyrics were translated around 1725; the oldest transcription is the one of Maurizio Carrus, who had inserted it as an appendix in the Rosary of San Vero Milis in 1731. The Laude is sung in the form of the gosos, a typical devotional song widespread in Sardinia.[2]
^The lyrics of the Ave Maria in the Logudorese dialect were attributed to Licheri by Giovanni Saba, bishop of Oristano from 1842 to 1860. See Antonio Strinna on the Canto Sardo a Guitar website, 1 September 2008
^Paolo Mercurio, Introduzione alla Musica Sarda, cap. “Tre canti sardi di tradizione colta”, pp. 191-201, Milano, 2014 ISBN978-88-6885-013-5
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