Achille in Sciro

Disse il ver? parlò per gioco?  
Mi confondo a' detti sui
e comincio a poco a poco
di me stesso a dubitar.

Pianger fanno i pianti altrui,
sospirar gli altrui sospiri;
ben potrian gli altrui deliri
insegnarmi a delirar.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Achille in Sciro [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):

Set by Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), 1736
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Fra l'ombre un lampo solo
Basta al nocchier sagace
Che già ritrova il polo,
Che riconosce il mar.

Al pellegrin ben spesso
basta un vestigio impresso
perché la via fallace
non l’abbia ad ingannar.

Composition:

Set to music by Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), "Fra l'ombre un lampo solo", 1736, first performed 1736, from opera Achille in Sciro

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1737, appears in Achille in Sciro

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Alberto Pedrotti , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Del sen gli ardori    
nessun mi vanti;
non soffro amori,
non voglio amanti:
troppo mi è cara
la libertà.

Se fosse ognuno
così sincero,
meno importuno
parrebbe il vero;
saria più rara
l'infedeltà.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Achille in Sciro [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):

Set by Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), 1736
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Risponderti vorrei  
ma gela il labbro e tace:
lo rese amor loquace,
muto lo rende Amor:

Amor, che a suo talento
rende un imbelle audace,
e abbatte in un momento,
quando gli piace, un cor.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Achille in Sciro [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):

Set by Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), 1736, first performed 1736
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]