Quelle est ceste beauté?
Language: French (Français)
Quelle est ceste beauté que je voy tant extrême,
Qui avec ses cheuveux, et sa voix et ses yeux,
D'un lien et d'un charme et d'un trait amoureux,
Et s'enchaine et s'enchante, et s'aveugle soi-même?
C'est le Monde changé en courtisane infâme,
Qui se va déguisant de mille fards le corps.
Mais c'est une beauté seulement du dehors
Qui ne peut effacer les laideurs de son âme.
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- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Tanta estrema bellezza ch'io vedo cos'è?", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-02
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Tanta estrema bellezza ch'io vedo cos'è?
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the French (Français)
Tanta estrema bellezza ch'io vedo cos'è?
Con capelli, con occhi e voce e sorriso
Che avvince e affascina col suo tratto amoroso
E s'incatena e si incanta e si illude da sé?
E' il mondo fattosi infame prostituta
Che con mille ornamenti si vuole adornare,
Ma che di bellezza solo esteriore è vestita
E la sua anima laida non riesce a celare.
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- Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2007 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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