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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale 
     Allor che ne’ bei vostri intera pace 
     Trovai ; ma dentro, ov’ ogni mal dispiace, 
     Chi d’ amor I’ alma a sè simil m’ assale. 
 E se creata a Dio non fusse eguale, 
     Altro che ’l bel di fuor, ch’ agli occhi piace, 
     Più non vorria; ma perch’ è sì fallace, 
     Trascende nella forma più universale. 
Io dico, ch’ a chi vive quel che muore 
     Quetar non può disir; nè par s’ aspetti 
     L’ eterno al tempo, ove altri cangia il pelo. 
Voglia sfrenata el senso è, non amore, 
     Che l’ alma uccide ; e ’l nostro fa perfetti
     Gli amici qui, ma più per morte in cielo

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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, appears in Rime, no. 52 [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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