Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1588 Nicholas Yonge published his Musica transalpina , the collection of Italian madrigals fitted with English texts , which touched off the explosive and colorful vogue for madrigal composition in England .
Simplified: In 1588 Nicholas Yonge published a book called Musica transalpina . It was a collection of Italian madrigals with words translated into English .