Se tranquillo a te d'accanto,
  Donna mia, talun mi vede,
  O felice appien mi crede,
  O guarito dall'amor:

Ma non tu, che sai pur quanto
  Combattuto e oppresso ho il cor.

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Note: modern spelling changes "mova" to "muova"

Composition:

Set to music by (Carl) Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (1810 - 1849), "Romanze: Il mistero", op. 24 no. 2, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

• by Felice Romani (1788 - 1865), "Il mistero"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El misteri", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le mystère", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das Geheimnis", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Robert Grady

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 119