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Non [t'accostare]1 all'Urna, Che [il cener mio]2 rinserra, Questa pietosa terra È sacra al mio dolor. [Odio gli affanni tuoi; Ricuso i tuoi giacinti]3, Che [giovano]4 agli estinti Due lagrime, [o due]5 fior? Empia! Dovevi [allora]6 Porgermi un fil d'aita, Quando traea la vita [Nell'ansia e nei]7 sospir. A che d'inutil pianto Assordi la foresta? Rispetta un'Ombra mesta, E lasciala dormir.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rime di Iacopo Vittorelli. Parte seconda. Bassano dalla Stamperia Baseggio 1815, page 30; with Rime di Iacopo Vittorelli. Nuova Edizione. Dall'Autore medesimo accresciuta, e unicamente approvata. Bassano dalla Tipografia Remondiniana 1806, page 123; and with Le Anacreontiche del Vittorelli. Edizione Quarta notabilmente accresciuta. In Venezia MDCCXCVIII [1798], page 25 [unnumbered].
Note: Vittorelli reworked and reordered his Anacreontiche several times. This poem is number XXI in the first edition (1798), number XIII in the 1806 edition and number X in the 1815 and subsequent editions.
1 Schubert: "t'accostar"2 Vittorelli (1798 and 1806 editions): "l'ossa mie"; Schubert: "l'osse mie"
3 Schubert: "Ricuso i tuoi giacinti, / Non voglio i tuo pianti"
4 Schubert: "giovan"
5 Schubert: "due"
6 Schubert: "allor"
7 Schubert: "In grembo dei"; Vittorelli (1798 edition): "In braccio de i"; Vittorelli (1806 edition): "Fra palpiti e"
Text Authorship:
- by Jacopo Vittorelli (1749 - 1835), no title, appears in Anacreontiche, in Ad Irene, no. 10, first published 1798 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Carlota Ferrari (1837 - 1907), "Non t'accostare all'urna", published 1856 [ voice, piano ], from 6 Melodie, no. 1, Sergio De Liso [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Non t'accostar all'urna", 2015, copyright © 2015 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Non t'accostar all'urna", D 688 no. 1 (1820), published 1871 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), "Non t'accostare all'urna", 1838, from 6 Romanze, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Will Crutchfield) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Do not draw near the urn that encloses my ashes; this merciful ground is sacred to my sorrow. I despise your grief; I refuse your wreaths of hyacinth. What use to the departed are a pair of tears or of flowers? Evil woman! you should have given me a thread of help while I bore my life in anxiety and sighs! Why deafen the forest with useless weeping? Respect a dolorous shade, and let it sleep.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Jacopo Vittorelli (1749 - 1835), no title, appears in Anacreontiche, in Ad Irene, no. 10, first published 1798
This text was added to the website: 2025-05-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 77