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La Biondina in gondoleta
L'altra sera gò menà:
Dal piacer la povereta,
La s'à in bota indormenzà.
La dormiva su sto brazzo,
Mi ogni tanto la svegiava,
Ma la barca che ninava
La tornava a indormenzar.
Gera in cielo mezza sconta,
Fra le nuvole la luna,
Gera in calma la laguna,
Gera el vento bonazzà.
Una solo bavesèla
Sventolava i so caveli,
E faceva che dai veli
Sconto el sen no fusse più.
Contemplando fisso fisso
Le fatezze del mio ben,
Quel viseto cussì slisso;
Quela boca e quel bel sen,
Me sentiva drento in peto
Una smania, un missiamento;
Una spezie de contento
Che no so come spiegar.
...
M'ò stufà po' finalmente
De sto tanto so dormir,
E gh'ò fato da insolente,
Nè m'ò avudo da pentir;
Perchè, oh Dio, che bele cosse
Che gh'ò dito, e che gh'ò fato!
No, mai più tanto beato
Ai me' zorni no son sta.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-6,9-10 of the original text.
Composition:
- Set to music by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "La biondina in gondoleta", 1901, published 1919, stanzas 1-6,9-10 [ high voice and piano ], from Venezia, chansons en dialecte vénitien, no. 4, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel
Text Authorship:
- by Antonio Lamberti (1757 - 1832), "La gondoletta", Venezia, negozio di libri all'Apollo, first published 1817
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "La blondinette en gondole", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Effimia Gianniou) , "Η ξανθούλα στην γόνδολα", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 195
The blonde girl in the little gondola
The other night I guided,
Of pleasure the poor little one
There in the boat fell asleep.
There she slept in my arms,
Every little while she awoke to me,
But the ship that rocked
Put her back to sleep.
Among the clouds the moon
Was in the sky half hidden,
In tranquility was the lagoon,
The wind was gentle.
A lone breeze
Fluttered her hair,
And made that by those veils
Hidden her breast was no longer.
Contemplating intently
The form of my beloved,
That face so smooth;
That mouth and that beautiful bosom.
I felt inside of my breast
A restlessness, a powerlessness,
A type of happiness
That I do not know how to explain.
...
I got tired then finally
Of this her excessive sleep,
And I became bold,
I did not have to repent;
Why, oh God, what beautiful things
That I said her, and that I did for her!
No, never again so blessed
In my days will I be.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-6,9-10 of the original text.
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- Translation from Italian - Venetian (dialect) to English copyright © 2019 by Garrett Medlock, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Italian - Venetian (dialect) by Antonio Lamberti (1757 - 1832), "La gondoletta", Venezia, negozio di libri all'Apollo, first published 1817
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