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Non so se quel sorriso mi schernisce o m’affida se quel mirarmi fiso m’alletta o mi diffida. Gia schernito e deriso da bella donna infida non vorrei più che’l core fosse strazio d’amore. Non vo’ più per dolcezza d’immaginato bene. Nutrimi d’amarezza vivendo sempre in pene, né per nuova bellezza portar i lacci e catene, né graver l’alma ancella di inferma novella. Se tu vuoi ch’io t’adori d’amor stella gentile, ti canti, e ch’io t’onori su la mia cetra docile a più degni tesori a guideron non vile chiama l’avida speme che spregiata già teme. Soffrir’io più non voglio la ferità crudele d’un cor cinto d’orgoglio, d’un anima infedele’ Né tra scoglio né tra scoglie affidar più le vele della mia libertate senza certa pietate.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Francesca Caccini (1587 - c1640), "Non so se quel sorriso", published 1618 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Jordyn Elizabeth Beranek) , "I do not know if that smile", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Jordyn Elizabeth Beranek
This text was added to the website: 2014-04-19
Line count: 32
Word count: 125
I do not know if that smile sneers at me or reassures me; if that fixed look attracts me or warn me. Already mocked and derided by a beautiful, but unfaithful woman, I do not want this heart tormented by love. I care no more about the sweetness of imagined goodness. You feed me with bitterness, living always in pain, a new love no longer laces and chains me, I will not burden the maiden’s soul with a pitiful story. If you want me to adore you, gentle star of love, I sing of you, and honor you on my sweet lyre, toward more worthy treasures guided not by a coward, I call the eager hope which scorns fear. I no longer want to suffer the cruel wound of a heart bound by pride; an unfaithful soul. No longer between rocks, I will not trust the sails of my liberty without the certainty of compassion.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2014-04-19
Line count: 32
Word count: 155