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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

D’altrui pietoso e sol di sè spietato
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
D’altrui pietoso e sol di sè spietato 
     Nascie un vil bruto, che con dolce doglia 
     L’ altrui man veste, e la suo scorza spoglia, 
     E sol per morte si può dir ben nato.
Così volesse al mie signior mie fato 
     Vestir suo viva di mie morta spoglia ; 
     Che, come serpe al sasso si discoglia, 
     Pur per morte potria cangiar mie stato.
O fussi sol la mie l’ irsuta pelle 
     Che, del suo pel contesta, fa tal gonna 
     Che con ventura stringe sì bel seno,
Che ’l giorno pur m’ aresti; o le pianelle 
Fuss’ io, che basa a quel fanno e colonna,
C’ al piover t’ are’ pur addosso almeno!

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Michaelangelo Buanarotti, The Sonnets of Michelangelo, London, New York : Smith, Elder, & Co., C. Scribner's Sons,1904


Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title [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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Michelangelo-Übertragungen ; composed by Willy Kehrer.
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