Me prometes, vida mía, que nuestro amor

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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE)

Translation © by Saúl Botero Restrepo

Iucundum, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG SPA

Iucundum, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem
  hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore.¹
di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit,
  atque id sincere dicat et ex animo,
ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita
  aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.¹

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• C. Orff

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¹ Orff interpolates here the Italian words: "Dormi, dormi, dormi ancora"

Text Authorship:

by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 109 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Michael Linton , "Iucundum, mea vita", first performed 2014 [ baritone and piano ], from Carmina Catulli, no. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "[ACTUS II. VI]. Iucundum, mea vita", 1940-43, published 1943, from cantata Catulli Carmina, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in English, a translation by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019) , copyright © ; composed by Dominick Argento.
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ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889
SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-07
Line count: 6
Word count: 39

Me prometes, vida mía, que nuestro amor

Language: Spanish (Español) after the Latin

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Me prometes, vida mía, que nuestro amor
será feliz y perpetuo. ¹
Grandes dioses, haced que lo diga sinceramente 
y que mantenga su promesa
para que podamos tener por toda la vida 
el imperecedero lazo de un amor santo.¹

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• C. Orff

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¹ Translation of Orff's inserted words: "Duerme, duerme, duerme todavía."

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a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 109
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-08
Line count: 6
Word count: 40