Italian wedding song is in the same tradition or not Wrong occasion to start with Second it only shares a partridge sans pear tree and possibly two turtle doves we don t have the Italian text for that and somehow a bride and true love are equated The remainder differ both in quantity 10 vs 12 and nature we seem to be dealing with domesticated animals and not game birds and items that signify nobility What we need is a musicologist equating the two traditions not just a reference to the Italian text