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Rimandatemi il cor, empio tiranno, ch'a si gran torto avete ed istraziate e di lui e di me quel proprio fate che le tigri e i leon di cerva fanno. Son passati otto giorni, a me un anno ch'io non ho vostre lettere od imbasciate, contra la fè che voi m'avete date, o fonte di valor, conte, e d'inganno. Credete ch'io sia Ercol o Sansone a poter sostener tanto dolore, giovane e donna e fuor d'ogni ragione, massime essendo qui senza 'l mio core e senza voi a mia difensione onde mi suol venir forza e vigore?
Authorship:
- by Gaspara Stampa (c1523 - c1554) [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 John Plant , "Sonetto di Gaspara Stampa", first performed 2012 [ voice and piano quartet ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John Plant) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2023-03-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 97
Send my heart back to me, wicked tyrant, which so wrongly you possess and tear to pieces, doing to it and to me precisely what tigers and lions do to deer. Eight days have passed - a year to me - in which I have had no letters or messages from you, contrary to the pledges you gave me, O fount of valour, count, and of deception. Do you think I am Hercules or Samson, to be able to withstand so much pain, young, and a woman, and out of my mind, and above all here without my heart, and without you to come to my defense - you, the source of my strength and my vigor?
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Authorship:
- by John Plant , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Gaspara Stampa (c1523 - c1554)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2023-03-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 117