by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE)
Translation by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)
Battillo siediti
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the Greek (Ελληνικά)
Battillo siediti All'ombra placida: Bell'è quest'Albero! Dolce ne tremola Su i Rami morbidi La Chioma tenera: Presso vi mormora E in Rivo scioglesi La Fonte viva; E seco volvesi Irresistibile Persuasiva. Com'è possibile, Quando si trove Luogo sì amabile; Passar altrove?
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with De' Poetici Componimenti del Signor Paolo Rolli: Divisi in Tre Libri: Libro Primo, Venezia, Appresso Bartolommeo Occhi, MDCCLXI (1761), pages 65-66.
Text Authorship:
- by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765), "Oda XXII" [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Maurice Greene (1696 - 1755), "Battillo siediti" [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Constant Poyard (1826 - 1909) , "Ode XXII (22) : À Bathylle (Anacréon)", first published 1908 ; composed by Francisque Bois.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875) , "Ruheplatz", appears in Anakreontische Lieder, no. 5 ; composed by Othmar Schoeck.
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