Vi parlo all’olandese

Vi parlo all’olandese,
da galantuom favello:
il sì dev’esser quello, 
dev’esser quello il no.

(A Polidoro che l’interrompe)
Oh, infamia di Partenope,
o taci o ch’io cospetto...
(Ah, merita rispetto:
è commensale, è amico; 
sdegnarmi, oh Dio, non so.)

(A Milord)
Ella avrà un padre in me,
e da un crudel nemico
sì la difenderò. 

(A Polidoro che l’interrompe)
O Italia miserabile
se fosser tutti simili...
Non posso più resistere,
son pieno di furore...
Bestia di te peggiore
nel mondo no, non v’è.

Submitted by Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Giuseppe Petrosellini (1727 - 1799) [ 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 Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801), "Vi parlo all’olandese", 1779, first performed 1779, from the opera L'italiana in Londra, no. 13. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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