Trois airs & trois duo Italiens

Song Cycle by Louise, Comtesse de Caumont d'Adde ( flourished 1816 ), as Signora Caumont d'Ade

1. Duetto a due soprani  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
E ver, mi piace 
   Quel volto amato , 
   E ad altra face 
   Non arderò . 
Purchè il mio bene 
   Non trovi ingrato , 
   Mai di catene 
   Non cangerò

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Confirmed with Opere del signor abate Pietro Metastasio poeta Cesareo, Volume 5, Dalle stampe di Antonio Zatta, 1783, page 67.


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2. Duetto a due soprani  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Per pietà, bell'idol mio,
non mi dir ch'io [sono]1 ingrato;
infelice e sventurato
abbastanza il Ciel mi fa.

Se [fedele]2 a te son io,
se mi struggo ai tuoi bei lumi,
sallo amor, lo sanno i Numi
il mio [core]3, il tuo lo sa.

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

  • ENG English (Camilla Bugge) , "For Pity's Sake", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hab Erbarmen, mein schöner Abgott", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Johann Christoph Grünbaum)

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Confirmed with A Literal Prose Translation of Five Select Pieces from the Works of Tasso, Metastasio and Alfieri, Bd. 1, Artaxerxes, Leghorn, 1826.

1 Curschmann: "son"
2 Curschmann: "fedel"
3 Curschmann: "cor"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
Total word count: 76