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by Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (1449 - 1492)

Quant è bella giovinezza
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Quant'è bella giovinezza
che si fugge tutta via!
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia:
di doman non c'è certezza.
Quest'è Bacco e Arianna
belli, e l'un dell'altro ardenti:
perché 'l tempo fugge e inganna,
sempre insieme stan contenti.
Queste ninfe ed altre genti
sono allegre tuttavia.
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia:
di doman non c'è certezza.
Questi lieti satiretti,
delle ninfe innamorati,
per caverne e per boschetti
han lor posto cento agguati;
or da Bacco riscaldati,
ballon, salton tuttavia.
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia:
di doman non c'è certezza.
Queste ninfe anche hanno caro
da lor esser ingannate:
non può fare a Amor riparo,
se non gente rozze e ingrate:
ora insieme mescolate
suonon, canton tuttavia.
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia:
di doman non c'è certezza.

Text Authorship:

  • by Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (1449 - 1492) [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 Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885 - 1974), "Quant è bella giovinezza", op. 59 (1937) [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr (1805 - 1876) , "Aus einem Carnevalsliede von Lorenz dei Medici", appears in Ein Stück Leben, a translation of the first stanza only, first published 1869 [an adaptation] ; composed by Catharina Baum.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-10
Line count: 28
Word count: 125

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