by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Sonetto XVI
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Sì come nella penna e nell'inchiostro È l'alto e 'l basso e 'l mediocre stile, E ne' marmi l'immagin ricca e vile, Secondo che 'l sa trar l'ingegno nostro; Così, signor mie car, nel petto vostro, Quante l'orgoglio, è forse ogni atto umile: Ma io sol quel c'a me proprio è e simile Ne traggo, come fuor nel viso mostro. Chi semina sospir, lacrime e doglie, (L'umor dal ciel terreste, schietto e solo, A vari semi vario si converte), Però pianto e dolor ne miete e coglie; Chi mira alta beltà con sì gran duolo, Dubbie speranze, e pene acerbe e certe.
Authorship:
- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 84 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Sonetto XVI", op. 22 no. 1 (1940), published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Michelangelo-Übertragungen ; composed by Richard Sturzenegger.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Carl Johengen) , "Sonnet XVI", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "Love and art", from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sonnet XVI", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Sonetas XVI", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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