by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Scarco d' un' importuna e grave salma
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Scarco d' un' importuna e grave salma, Signor mio caro, e dal mondo disciolto, Qual fragil legno, a te stanco mi volto Dall' orribil procella in dolce calma. Le spine, e' chiodi, e l'un' e l'altra palma Col tuo benigno umil pietoso volto Prometton grazia di pentirsi molto, E speme di salute alla trist' alma. Non mirin con giustizia i tuoi santi occhi Il mio passato, e 'l gastigato orecchio Non tenda a quello il tuo braccio severo. Tuo sangue sol mie colpe lavi e tocchi, E più abbondi, quant' io son più vecchio, Di pront' aita e di perdon' intero.
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Confirmed with Le Rime di Michelangelo Buonarroti, ed. by Cesare Guasti, Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1863. Appears in Sonetti, page 241.
Text Authorship:
- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 297 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895) , no title, first published 1896 ; composed by Walter Courvoisier, Emil Mattiesen.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bettina Jacobson , no title ; composed by Theodor Streicher.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Michelangelo-Übertragungen ; composed by Erich Schmid, Richard Sturzenegger.
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