Ch'io mai vi possa 
Lasciar d'amare,
No, nol credete, 
Pupille care;
Nè men per gioco 
V'ingannerò.

Voi foste e siete 
Le mie faville,
E voi sarete, 
Care pupille,
Il mio bel foco 
Sin ch'io vivrò.

Composition:

Set to music by Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825), no title, 1803 [ voice and piano ], from Divertimenti vocali, no. 10, confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Siroe, re di Persia, appears in Cantate, in 2. Il tabacco, in 1. Cantata I

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

• ENG English (Christie Turnage Turner) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne) , "La promesse", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
• GER German (Deutsch) (G. Friedrich) , "Das Versprechen", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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