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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782)

Alfin sarai contenta
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE
Alfin sarai contenta
Empia fortuna avara!
Quanto mi costi cara
Spiantata nobilità!

Per me Imeneo già versa
La sua bevanda amara:
Addio per sempre addio
Mia bella libertà!

Orsù non ci pensiamo,
Corraggio, e concludiamo:
Alfin s'io prendo moglie
So ben perchè lo fo.

Lo fo per pagar debiti,
La prendo per contanti,
Di dirlo, e di ripeterlo,
Difficoltà non ho.

Tra tanti modi, e tanti
Di prender moglie al mondo,
Un modo più giocondo
Del mio trovar non so.

Si prende per affetto,
Si prende per rispetto,
Si prende per consiglio,
Si prende per puntiglio,
Si prende per capriccio
E' vero sì, o nò?

Ed io per medicina
Di tutt'i mali miei
Un poco di sposina
Prendere non potrò?

Ho detto e'l ridico,
Lo fo pei contanti;
Lo fan tanti, e tanti;
Anch' io lo farò.

Nuotando, sguazzando
Fra l'oro, e l'argento
Felice, contento
Goder me la vò.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Schubert 

F. Schubert sets stanzas 3-8

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Confirmed with Il contraccambio ovvero L'amore alla pruova. Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel R. Teatro del Fondo nel inverno dell' 1823. Napoli, della Tipografia Flautina 1823, pages 17-18.

The text appears in the play Il contraccambio ovvero L'amore alla pruova, atto I, scena VIII, as the aria of Duca Alberto di Kalitz. The author of the libretto is unknown, the play has been set by Luigi Carlini and has been staged 1823 in Naples, where the libretto has been printed (see above).


Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
  • sometimes misattributed to Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Il modo di prender moglie (Die Art ein Weib zu nehmen)", op. 83 (Drei Lieder von Metastasio) no. 3, D 902 no. 3 (1827), published 1827, stanzas 3-8 [ bass, piano ], Tobias Haslinger, VN 5063, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Thomas Dawkins) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , "Die Art ein Weib zu nehmen"


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 38
Word count: 154

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