The robust oak spurns the wind's fury

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Sprezza il furor del vento

(Sung text for setting by F. Veracini)

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Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Sprezza il furor del vento
robusta quercia, avvezza,
di cento verni e cento
gl'oltraggi a superar.

E se pur cade al suolo,
spiega per l'onde il volo,
e con quel vento istesso
va contrastando in mar.

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Francesco Maria Veracini

Adriano in Siria

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Adriano in Siria

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The robust oak spurns the wind's fury

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Veracini)

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Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

The robust oak spurns the wind's fury,
accustomed to suffering a hundred winters
as, likewise, a hundred injuries.

And if it does at last fall to the ground,
it makes its course plain to the waves,
and it combats with that same wind across the sea.

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