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by Giovanni Battista Casti (1724 - 1803)

Io re sono e sono amante
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Io re sono e sono amante.    
Il mio amor è un brutto affanno,
il mio regno è un bel malanno,
ma la taglia è peggio ancor.
Quando volgo il mio pensiero
alla mia crudel Lisetta,
par che irato amor mi metta
mille diavoli nel cor.
Ch'io son re poi mi rammento,
e dai stimoli di gloria
cose a far degne d'istoria
infiammar mi sento allor.
Ma la solita paura
smorza amor, la gloria oscura,
e aver parmi sulla groppa
il sicario che m'accoppa
e con qualche botta ria
mi risana in sempiterno
dall'eroïca pazzia
della gloria e dell'amor.

Text Authorship:

  • by Giovanni Battista Casti (1724 - 1803) [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 Giovanni Paisiello (1740 - 1816), "Io re sono e sono amante", 1784, first performed 1784, from opera Il re Teodoro in Venezia, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "I am a king and a lover.", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-06-05
Line count: 20
Word count: 98

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