Signor, se vero è alcun proverbio antico
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: CAT FRE LIT
Signor, se vero è alcun proverbio antico,
questo è ben quel, che chi può, mai non vuole.
Tu hai creduto a favole e parole,
e premiato chi èl del ver nimico.
Io sono, e fui già tuo buon servo antico;
a te son dato come i raggi al sole;
e del mio tempo non t'incresce o duole,
e men ti piaccio se più m'affatico.
Già sperai ascender per la tuo altezza;
e 'l giusto peso, e la potente spada
fassi al bisogno, e non la voce d'ecco.
Ma 'l cielo è quel ch'ogni virtù disprezza
locarla al mondo, se vuol ch'altri vada
a prender frutto d'un arbor ch'è secco.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954) ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "To Pope Julius II", from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Vérité", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bettina Jacobson) , "An Julius II", from Michelangelo: Gedichte und Briefe, first published 1907
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , subtitle: "Yra teisybės sakmėse senovės", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Yra teisybės sakmėse senovės
Language: Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) after the Italian (Italiano)
Yra teisybės sakmėse senovės
Viena iš jų: „kas gali, tas nenori“.
Tu, Viešpatie, žinai, kad melas dilgint gali
Ir šitaip plepūnus apdovanojai.
Aš gi tavasis tarnas: darbai manieji tau skirti,
Kaip saulei spinduliai, - nors tavo pyktis sunaikina visa tai,
Ką mano įkarštis nuveikti nori,
Ir visos mano pastangos bereikšmės.
Maniau, priims tavasis didingumas
Mane ne aidu savo rūmams,
O teismo ašmeniu ir svarmeniu rūstybės.
Bet dausos abejingos žemiškoms vertybėms.
Tikėtis dovanų iš jų, -
Tas pats kaip vaisių laukt nudžiūvus medžiui.
Subtitle: "Yra teisybės sakmėse senovės"
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) copyright © 2023 by Giedrius Prunskus, (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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