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Si dolce è'l tormento Ch'in seno mi sta, Ch'io vivo contento Per cruda beltà. Nel ciel di bellezza S'accreschi fierezza Et manchi pietà: Che sempre qual scoglio All'onda d'orgoglio Mia fede sarà. La speme fallace Rivolgam' il piè. Diletto ne pace Non scendano a me. E l'empia ch'adoro Mi nieghi ristoro Di buona mercè: Tra doglia infinita, Tra speme tradita Vivrà la mia fè. Per foco e per gelo Riposo non hò. Nel porto del Cielo Riposo haverò. Se colpo mortale Con rigido strale Il cor m'impiagò, Cangiando mia sorte Col dardo di morte Il cor sanerò. Se fiamma d'amore Già mai non sentì Quel riggido core Ch'il cor mi rapì, Se nega pietate La cruda beltate Che l'alma invaghì: Ben fia che dolente, Pentita e languente Sospirimi un dì.
Text Authorship:
- by Carlo Milanuzzi (c1590 - c1647) [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 Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Sì dolce è'l tormento", published 1624 [voice, accordion, cornet, horn, trombone, and theorbo], from Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze, Venice [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Robert Garrigós) , "Tant dolç és el turment", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Geart van der Meer) , "Zo zoet is de kwelling", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Si doux est le tourment", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , "Sa swiet is de pine", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "So süß ist die Qual", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 40
Word count: 130
So süß ist die Qual, die im Herzen ich trage, dass glücklich ich lebe der grausamen Schönheit. Mag am Himmel der Schönheit auch Hochmut erblühen, Barmherzigkeit fehlen, stets fest wie ein Fels in der Brandung des Hochmuts wird steh’n meine Treu. Ein trügerisch Hoffen verwirrt meine Schritte, nicht Freude noch Friede kommen auf mich herab. Die Grausame, die ich liebe, verwehrt das Erbarmen: Zwischen endlosem Weh und vergeblichem Hoffen lebt fort meine Treu. Im Brennen, im Frieren find ich keine Ruh. Im Hafen des Himmels werd Ruhe ich finden. Wenn der tödliche Schuss eines harten Pfeils das Herz mir durchbohrt, wird mein Los sich ändern, mit dem Pfeil des Todes wird mein Herz genesen. Wenn dies grausame Herz, das mein Herz mir genommen, die Flamme der Liebe noch niemals verspürte, wenn die grausame Schöne, die mich verwirrte, kein Mitleid empfindet, so kann es doch sein, dass sie in Reue und Pein, eines Tags nach mir seufzt.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2019 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Carlo Milanuzzi (c1590 - c1647)
This text was added to the website: 2019-03-19
Line count: 40
Word count: 156