Who shall ever know

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

Translation © by Luk Laerenbergh

Ah rammenta o bella Irene

(Sung text for setting by G. Donizetti)

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Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FIN FRE GER

Chi mai di questo core
  Saprà le vie secrete,
  Se voi non le sapete,
  Begl'occhi del mio ben?
Voi che dal primo istante,
  Quando divenni amante,
  Il mio nascosto foco
  Mi conosceste in sen.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 14. Il Ritorno

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ENG English (Luk Laerenbergh) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

Who shall ever know

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Donizetti)

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Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Who shall ever know
The secret ways of this heart,
If you do not know them,
Beautiful eyes of my love?
You, who from the first moment,
When I became your lover,
Knew the fire hidden
In my heart?

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