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Si dolce è'l tormento Ch'in seno mi sta, Ch'io vivo contento Per cruda beltà. Nel ciel di bellezza S'accreschi fierezza Et manchi pietà: Che sempre qual scoglio All'onda d'orgoglio Mia fede sarà. La speme fallace Rivolgam' il piè. Diletto ne pace Non scendano a me. E l'empia ch'adoro Mi nieghi ristoro Di buona mercè: Tra doglia infinita, Tra speme tradita Vivrà la mia fè. Per foco e per gelo Riposo non hò. Nel porto del Cielo Riposo haverò. Se colpo mortale Con rigido strale Il cor m'impiagò, Cangiando mia sorte Col dardo di morte Il cor sanerò. Se fiamma d'amore Già mai non sentì Quel riggido core Ch'il cor mi rapì, Se nega pietate La cruda beltate Che l'alma invaghì: Ben fia che dolente, Pentita e languente Sospirimi un dì.
Text Authorship:
- by Carlo Milanuzzi (c1590 - c1647) [author's text not yet checked 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 Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Sì dolce è'l tormento", published 1624 [voice, accordion, cornet, horn, trombone, and theorbo], from Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze, Venice [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Robert Garrigós) , "Tant dolç és el turment", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Geart van der Meer) , "Zo zoet is de kwelling", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Si doux est le tourment", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRI Frisian (Geart van der Meer) , "Sa swiet is de pine", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "So süß ist die Qual", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 130
Tan dolç és el turment en el meu pit, que visc feliç per la cruel bellesa. En el cel de la bellesa creix l'arrogància i manca la pietat: com una roca contra l'onada de l'orgull serà la meva fe. Vana esperança m'assetja, ni joia ni pau baixen a mi. I la impia que adoro em nega el consol de la pietat amable: en el dolor infinit, en l'esperança traïda, viurà la meva fe. Entre foc i gel no tindré repòs. A la porta del cel repòs trobaré. Si el cop mortal d'una fletxa esmolada em fereix el cor, per canviar el destí amb un dard de mort curaré el cor. La flama de l'amor no ha sentit mai el dur cor que raptà el meu. Si em nega la pietat la cruel bellesa que l'ànima em captivà, amb sofriment, penediment i llanguiment, un dia em plorarà.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2011 by Robert Garrigós, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Carlo Milanuzzi (c1590 - c1647)
This text was added to the website: 2011-10-31
Line count: 40
Word count: 146