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The melody for Hatikvah derives from La Mantovana, a 17th-century Italian song, composed by Giuseppe Cenci ( Guiseppino del Biado ) ca.

1600 with the text " Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo ".

Its earliest known appearance in print was in the del Biado's collection of madrigals.

It was later known in early 17th-century Italy as " Ballo di Mantova.

" This melody gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, under various titles, such as the Polish folk song " Pod Krakowem ", Romanian “ Cucuruz cu frunza-n sus ” (“ Maize with up-standing leafs ”) and the Ukrainian " Kateryna Kucheryava.

" This melody was also famously used by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana in his symphonic poem celebrating Bohemia, “ Má vlast ,” as “ Vltava ” ( Die Moldau ).