Lusinghe più care

Lusinghe più care
d'Amor veri dardi
Vezzose volate
sul labbro, nei guardi,
e tutta involate
l'altrui libertà.

Gelosi sospetti,
diletti con pene;
fra gioie e tormenti
momenti di spene,
voi l'armi farete
di vaga beltà.

Translation(s): ENG

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Submitted by Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765) [ author's text not yet checked 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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Lusinghe più care", HWV 21 (1726), first performed 1726. [strings and soprano voice] [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Lusinghe più care", HWV 21 (1726), first performed 1726 [strings and soprano voice], from the opera Alessandro [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Sweetest flattery", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2018-04-08.
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Sweetest flattery

Sweetest flattery,
love's truest darts,
You fly charmingly 
through others' gazes
and on their lips,
and so rob everyone of liberty.

Jealous suspicions, 
delights intertwined with pain,
moments of hope 
betwixt joy and anguish:
behold how you make 
a weapon out of beauty.

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• a text in Italian (Italiano) by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Georg Friedrich Händel. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2018-04-08.
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