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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Come può esser ch'io non sia più mio?
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Come può esser ch'io non sia più mio?
O Dio, o Dio, o Dio!
Chi [m'ha tolto]1 a me stesso,
c'a me fusse più presso,
O più di [me potessi che poss'io?]2
o Dio, o Dio, o Dio!
Come mi passa el core,
chi non par che mi tocchi?
Che cosa è questo Amore,
[c'al core entra per gli occhi,
per poco spazio dentro par che cresca?
E s'avvien che trabocchi?]3

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Kvandal 

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1 Kvandal: "mi tolse"
2 Kvandal: "me, che mi possa esser io,"
3 Kvandal:
Chi e quel che per forza a te mi mena.
Ohime, Ohime, Ohime!
Legato e stretto, e son liberoe sciolto?
Se tu 'n cate ni altrui,
senza catena, senza mani o braccia,
senza catena, senza mani,
o senza braccia m'hai racolto,
Chi mi difendera, chi mi difenderà
dal tuo bel volto, bel volto.

Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 8 [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 Johan Kvandal (1919 - 1999), "Come può esser ch'io non sia più mio?", op. 49 no. 1, from Michelangelo-Poem, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (John Scandrett Harford) , no title, appears in The Life of M. A. Buonarroti, with translations of many of his poems and letters. Also memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Vittoria Colonna, first published 1857
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Johannes (Hans) Grasberger) , no title, appears in Michelangelo: Gedichte und Briefe, first published 1907


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74

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