by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
Pace non trovo See original
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Pace non trovo, e non ho da far guerra, E temo, e spero, ed ardo, e son un ghiaccio: E volo sopra 'l cielo, e giaccio in terra; E nulla stringo, e tutto 'l mondo abbraccio. Tal m'ha in priggion, che non m'apre, nè serra, Nè per suo mi ritien, nè scioglie il laccio E non m'ancide Amor, e non mi sferra; Nè mi vuol vivo, nè mi trahe d'impaccio. Veggio senz'occhi; e non ho lingua e grido; E bramo di perir, e cheggio aita; Ed ho in odio me stesso, ed amo altrui. Pascomi di dolor, piangendo rido, Egualmente mi spiace morte e vita, In questo stato son, Donna, per Voi.
Note: in the repetition of the final line, Liszt changes "Donna" to "O Laura".
Composition:
- Set to music by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Pace non trovo", S. 270a no. 1 (1842-1846), published 1846 [ tenor and piano ], from Tre sonetti di Petrarca, no. 1, Vienna, Haslinger; confirmed with a 1917 edition by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, also set in German (Deutsch)
Text Authorship:
- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 134
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Thomas Wyatt, Sir) , "I find no peace" [an adaptation]
- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Francisque Reynard) , "Sonnet LXXXIX"
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Wilson Hidalgo) , "No encuentro paz", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 113