by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Da quel sembiante appresi
 (Sung text for setting by F. Schubert)
 See original
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE
Da quel sembiante appresi
A sospirar d'amore;
Sempre per quel sembiante
Sospirero d'amore.

La face, a cui m'accesi
Solo m'alletta e piace;
È fredda ogn' altra face
Per riscaldarmi il cuore.

The text appears in L'Eroe cinese, atto I, scena III (Lisinga's aria).

Composition:

    Set to music by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Da quel sembiante appresi", D 688 no. 3 (1820), published 1871

Text Authorship:

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "D’aquell rostre he après", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "From that countenance I learned", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "De quelle forme j'ai appris", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 38