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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Misero pargoletto
NOTE: the footnotes have been removed from this text; return to general view
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE GER
Misero pargoletto,
Il tuo destin non sai.
Ah! non gli dite mai
Qual era il genitor.

Come in un punto, oh Dio,
Tutto cambiò d'aspetto!
Voi foste il mio diletto,
Voi siete il mio terror.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Schubert 

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 246.

The text appears in "Demofoonte", atto III, scena V (Timante's aria).


Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1733, appears in Demofoonte [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 36

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