by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Per pietà, bell'idol mio
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Language: Italian (Italiano)
Per pietà, bell'idol mio, non mi dir ch'io sono ingrato; infelice e sventurato abbastanza il Ciel mi fa. Se fedele a te son io, se mi struggo ai tuoi bei lumi, sallo amor, lo sanno i Numi il mio core, il tuo lo sa.
W. Mozart sets stanza 1
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with A Literal Prose Translation of Five Select Pieces from the Works of Tasso, Metastasio and Alfieri, Bd. 1, Artaxerxes, Leghorn, 1826.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Artaserse, Act I, Scene V [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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