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

La patria è un tutto
 (Sung text for setting by G. Hasse)
 Matches base text
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
La Patria è un tutto
di cui siam parti,
al cittadino è fallo
considerar se stesso
separato da lei:
l'utile o il danno
ch'ei conoscer dee solo
è ciò che giova
o nuoce alla sua patria
a cui di tutto è debitor.
Quando i sudori e il sangue
sparge per lei
nulla del proprio ei dona,
rende sol ciò che n'ebbe.
Essa il produsse,
l'educò, lo nudrí:
con le sue leggi
dagl'insulti domestici
il difende,
dagli esterni con l'armi.
Ella gli presta nome,
grado ed onor,
ne premia il merto,
ne vendica le offese,
e madre amante,
a fabbricar s'affanna
la sua felicità,
per quanto lice
al destin dei mortali
esser felice.

Composition:

    Set to music by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "La patria è un tutto", 1750, first performed 1750 [ alto and continuo ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1740, appears in Attilio Regolo

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

  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Alberto Pedrotti , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 112

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