by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare La donna mia quand'ella altrui saluta, Ch'ogni lingua divien tremando muta E gli occhi non ardiscon di guardare. Ella sen va, sentendosi laudare Benignamente d'umilta' vestuta, E par che sia una cosa venuta Di cielo in terra a miracol mostrare. Mostrasi si' piacente a chi la mira, Che da' per gli occhi una dolcezza al core, Che intender non la puo' chi non la prova. E par che della sua labbia si muova Uno spirto soave e pien d'amore, Che va dicendo all'anima: sospira!
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- by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), appears in La vita nuova [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 Ciro Ercole Pinsuti, Il Cavaliere (1829 - 1888), "Sonetto di Dante" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 - 1886), "Sonetto di Dante" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Norbert Rousseau , "Tanto gentille", op. 12 (1928) [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta", op. 83 (Zehn Lieder aus dem Französischen, Italienischen und Englischen übersetzt von N. Roda und A. v. Winterfeld für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 5 (1869), published 1870 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Adolf Wilhelm Ernst von Winterfeld (1824 - 1888) and possibly by N. Roda ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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