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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Your love and pity doth the impression...
Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:
    You are so strongly in my purpose bred,
    That all the world besides methinks are dead. 

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Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 112 [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 Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet CXII", 1864-6 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 112, first published 1857
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-08-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 114

L’amore tuo e la pietà cancellano quel...
Language: Italian (Italiano)  after the English 
L’amore tuo e la pietà cancellano quel marchio
che, con pubblico scandalo, ho in fronte stampato
perché cosa mi importa  di chi mi chiama  buono o cattivo
se tu rigeneri il mio brutto e il mio bene hai apprezzato?
Tu sei tutto il mio mondo e io debbo fare ogni sforzo
per capire i miei pregi e le vergogne solo dal tuo dire,
nessun altro per me esiste né per nessun altro vivo,
che possa mutare in male o in bene il mio duro sentire.
In questo profondo abisso getto ogni mia attenzione
ai giudizi degli altri, come l’udito del serpente
che è sordo alle voci di critica o di adulazione.
E ti spiego perché trascuro il parere della gente:
Tu sei nella mia mente infisso così forte,
Che le altre cose del mondo sono, per ogni mio senso, morte.

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  • Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2025 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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  • a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 112
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This text was added to the website: 2025-07-16
Line count: 14
Word count: 140

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