by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Language: Italian (Italiano)
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Amor con le sue man gli occhi m'asciuga,
promettendomi cara ogni fatica;
ché vile esser non può chi tanto costa.
Composition:
- Set to music by Johan Kvandal (1919 - 1999), no title, op. 49 no. 2, lines 12-14, from Michelangelo-Poem, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 82
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "No Escape from Love", appears in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 96