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

Son sventurato
 (Sung text for setting by F. Veracini)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Son sventurato;
ma pure o stelle
io vi son grato
che almen sì belle
sian le cagioni
del mio martir.
 
Poco è funesta
l’altrui fortuna,
quando non resta
ragione alcuna
né di pentirsi
né d’arrossir.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francesco Maria Veracini (1690 - 1768), "Son sventurato" [ strings, alto voice, and continuo ], from opera Adriano in Siria

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Adriano in Siria

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