Grazie agl'inganni tuoi,
  Al fin respiro, o Nice,
  Al fin d'un infelice
  Ebber gli Dei pietà:
    Sento da' lacci suoi,
  Sento che l' Alma è sciolta:
  Non sogno questa volta,
  Non sogno libertà.

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Confirmed with Opere di Pietro Metastasio, Gio. Tomaso Masie Comp., 1782, pages 427-431.

Composition:

Set to music by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), no title, published 1742, stanza 1 [ soprano, continuo ], Verified with Venetian Ballads, John Walsh, London 1742. Page 3.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, "La libertà a Nice", written 1733, appears in Canzonette, no. 3

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

• ENG English (Christian Anderson) , "Freedom [or Freedom from Nice]", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation]

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