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by Antonio Lamberti (1757 - 1832)

La gondoletta
 (Sung text for setting by L. Beethoven)
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Language: Italian - Venetian (dialect) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE GRE SPA
La Biondina in gondoleta
  L'altra sera gò menà:
  Dal piacer la povereta,
  La s'à in bota indormenzà.

La dormiva su sto brazzo,
  Mi ogni tanto la svegiava,
  Ma la barca che ninava
  La tornava a indormenzar.

Fra le nuvole la luna
  Gera in cielo mezza sconta,
  Gera in calma la laguna,
  Gera el vento bonazzà.

Una solo bavesèla
  Sventolava i so caveli,
  E faceva che dai veli
  Sconto el sen no fusse più.

Contemplando fisso fisso
  Le fatezze del mio ben,
  Quel viseto cussì slisso;
  Quela boca e quel bel sen,

Me sentiva drento in peto
  Una smania, un missiamento;
  Una spezie de contento
  Che no so come spiegar.

So' stà un pezzo rispetando
   Quel bel sono, e ò soportà,
   Benche Amor de quando in quando
   El m’avesse assae tentà;

E ò provà a butarme zozo
   Là con ela a pian pianin;
   Ma col fogo da vicin
   Chi averia da ripossar?

M'ò stufà po' finalmente
  De sto tanto so dormir,
  E gh'ò fato da insolente,
  Nè m'ò avudo da pentir;

Perchè, oh Dio, che bele cosse
  Che gh'ò dito, e che gh'ò fato!
  No, mai più tanto beato
  Ai me' zorni no son sta.

Composition:

    Set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "La gondoletta", WoO 157 no. 12 (1816), from 12 songs of various nationalities, no. 12

Text Authorship:

  • by Antonio Lamberti (1757 - 1832), "La gondoletta", Venezia, negozio di libri all'Apollo, first published 1817

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "La blondinette en gondole", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Effimia Gianniou) , "Η ξανθούλα στην γόνδολα", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 40
Word count: 194

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