by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)
La vita fugge See base text
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
La vita fugge e non s'arresta un'ora:
E la morte vien dietro a gran giornate;
E le cose presenti e le passate
Mi danno guerra, e le future ancora.
E 'l rimembrar e l'aspettar m'accora
Or quinci or quindi sì, che 'n veritate,
Se non ch'i' ho di me stesso pietate,
I' sarei già di questi pensier fôra.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "La vita fugge", lines 1-8
Text Authorship:
- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 272
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Francisque Reynard)
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 101