by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
Language: Italian (Italiano)
A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia Sfogar con pianti o con parole meste, Se di tal sorte 'l ciel, che l'alma veste, Tard' o per tempo, alcun mai non ne spoglia? A che 'l cor lass' a più [morir]1 m'invoglia, S'altri pur dee morir? Dunque per queste Luci l'ore del fin fian men moleste; Ch'ogn' altro ben val men ch'ogni mia doglia. Però se 'l colpo, ch'io ne rub' e 'nvolo, Schifar non poss'; almen, s'è destinato, Ch entrerà 'nfra la dolcezza e 'l duolo? Se vint' e pres' i' debb'esser beato, Maraviglia non è se nud' e solo, Resto prigion d'un Cavalier armato.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 K. Sorabji: "languir"
Authorship:
- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 98 [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 XXXI", op. 22 no. 2 (1940), published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia", KSS 36 no. 3 (1923), published 2005, first performed 1980 [ voice and orchestra ], from Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti, no. 3, Bath: The Sorabji Archive, critical edition [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Carl Johengen) , "Sonnet XXXI", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "To Tommaso de' Cavalieri: Love's lordship", from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "What point is there in still giving vent to my intense longing", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sonnet XXXI", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , 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
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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