Il nocchier, che si figura

Il nocchier, che si figura
Ogni scoglio, ogni tempesta
Non si lagni se poi resta
Un mendico pescator.

Darsi in braccio ancor conviene
Qualche volta alla fortuna;
che sovente in ciò ch’avviene
la fortuna ha parte ancor.

Translation(s): ENG

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Submitted by Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio [ 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), "Il nocchier, che si figura", HWV 29, from the opera Ezio [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Let the helmsman who imagines", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2018-04-24.
Last modified: 2018-08-14 12:35:52
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Let the helmsman who imagines

Let the helmsman who imagines
each treacherous rock
and each ocean storm,
not complain, if after all of that,
he must still reckon with a beggarly fisherman.

It is sometimes worthwhile to 
trust oneself ever to fortune,
for often in unforeseen eventualities,
fortune plays her part.

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• a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Georg Friedrich Händel. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2018-08-16.
Last modified: 2018-08-16 00:52:48
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Word count: 46