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by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Crud'Amarilli, che col nom'ancora

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Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE SPA

Crud'Amarilli, che col nom'ancora
D'amar, ahi lasso! amaramente insegni,
Amarilli, del candido ligustro
Più candida più bella,
Ma de l'àspido sordo 
E più sorda più fèra e più fugace,
Poi che col dir t'offendo,
i' mi morrò tacendo. 

Ma grideran per me le piagge e i monti
E questa selva, a cui 
Sì spesso li tuo bel nome
Di risonar insegno. 
Per me piangendo i fonti
E mormorando i venti,
Diranno i miei lamenti;
 ... .

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Text Authorship:

by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), no title, appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act I, scene 2, lines 272-279

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Cruelle Amaryllis, qui par ton nom même", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , "Cruel Amarilis que con tu nombre", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Cruelle Amaryllis, qui par ton nom même

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Wert)

See original

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Cruelle Amaryllis, qui par ton nom même,
Apprends, hélas ! à aimer amèrement,
Amaryllis, plus que le troène blanc
Blanche et belle,
Mais plus que le sourd aspic
Et sourde, et sauvage, et fuyante
Puisque je t'offense en parlant
Je mourrai en me taisant.

Mais pour moi les plages et les monts le crieront,
Et cette forêt, à qui
Si souvent à ton beau nom
J'apprends à faire écho.
Pour moi, les fontaines en pleurs,
Et les vents qui murmurent
Diront mes tourments :
Sur mon visage parleront
La pitié et la douleur ;
Et si toutes les choses sont muettes, à la fin
Ma mort parlera,
Et la mort te dira mon martyre.

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