Salvo tu vuoi lo sposo?
  Salvo lo sposo avrai:
  Lascia del tuo riposo,
  Lascia la cura a me.
I dubbi tuoi perdono;
  Tutto il mio cor non sai;
  Ti spiegherà chi sono
  Quel ch'io farò per te.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume Unico, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e Compagni, 1832, page 330.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Zenobia, Act II, Scene 7, first published 1737 [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Salvo tu vuoi lo sposo?", WoO 99 no. 12, from Mehrstimmige italienische Gesänge, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Salvo tu vuoi lo sposo?", 1761, first performed 1761 [ strings, tenor voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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