Quante dirne si de' non si può dire
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: CAT LIT
Quante dirne si de' non si può dire,
chè troppo agli orbi il suo splendor s'accese:
Biasmar si può più 'l popol che 'l offese,
c'al suo men pregio ogni maggior salire.
Questo discese a' merti del fallire,
per l'util nostro, e poi a Dio ascese:
E le porte che 'l ciel non gli contese,
la patria chiuse al suo guisto desire.
Ingrata, dico, e della suo fortuna
a suo danno nutrice; ond' è ben segnio,
c' a' più perfetti abonda di più guai.
Fra mille altre ragion sol ha quest' una:
Se par non ebbe il suo esilio indegnio,
simil uom nè maggior non naqque mai.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954) ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "On Dante Alighieri", appears in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
- FRE French (Français) (Ernest Lafond) (Edmond Lafond) , "Rime no. 250", appears in Dante, Pétrarque, Michel-Ange, Tasse, Sonnets choisis, first published 1948
- GER German (Deutsch) (Hermann Friedrich Grimm) , "Dante", from Michelangelo: Gedichte und Briefe, first published 1907
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , subtitle: "Tarytum gerbiam, bet garbės tos maža", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Tarytum gerbiam, bet garbės tos maža
Language: Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) after the Italian (Italiano)
Tarytum gerbiam, bet garbės tos maža.
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Taip nuolat keršija niekšybė tobulybei.
Tai vienas pavyzdžių iš tų, kurių gausybė!
Kaip niekšiškesnio ištrėmimo nesurast,
Taip neatrast pasaulyje žmogaus kilnesnio.
Subtitle: "Tarytum gerbiam, bet garbės tos maža"
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