Non t'accostare all'Urna,
Che il cener mio rinserra,
Questa pietosa terra
È sacra al mio dolor.

Odio gli affanni tuoi;
Ricuso i tuoi giacinti,
Che giovano agli estinti
Due lagrime, o due fior?

Empia! Dovevi allora
Porgermi un fil d'aita,
Quando traea la vita
Nell'ansia e nei sospir.

A che d'inutil pianto
Assordi la foresta? 
Rispetta un'Ombra mesta,
E lasciala dormir.

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Confirmed with Rime di Iacopo Vittorelli. Parte seconda. Bassano dalla Stamperia Baseggio 1815, page 30; with Rime di Iacopo Vittorelli. Nuova Edizione. Dall'Autore medesimo accresciuta, e unicamente approvata. Bassano dalla Tipografia Remondiniana 1806, page 123; and with Le Anacreontiche del Vittorelli. Edizione Quarta notabilmente accresciuta. In Venezia MDCCXCVIII [1798], page 25 [unnumbered].

Note: Vittorelli reworked and reordered his Anacreontiche several times. This poem is number XXI in the first edition (1798), number XIII in the 1806 edition and number X in the 1815 and subsequent editions.

Text Authorship:

• by Jacopo Vittorelli (1749 - 1835), no title, appears in Anacreontiche, in Ad Irene, no. 10, first published 1798 [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 Carlota Ferrari (1837 - 1907), "Non t'accostare all'urna", published 1856 [ voice, piano ], from 6 Melodie, no. 1, Sergio De Liso [sung text not yet checked]
• by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Non t'accostar all'urna", 2015, copyright © 2015 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Non t'accostar all'urna", D 688 no. 1 (1820), published 1871 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), "Non t'accostare all'urna", 1838, from 6 Romanze, no. 1 [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 (Will Crutchfield) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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