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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Translation Singable translation by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954)

Qua si fa elmi di calici e spade
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT FRE LIT
Qua si fa elmi di calici e spade,
e 'l sangue di Cristo si vend' a giumelle,
e croce e spine son lance e rotelle;
e pur da Cristo pazienza cade!

Ma non c'arivi più 'n queste contrade,
chè n'andré 'l sangue suo 'nsin alle stelle,
poscia che a Roma gli vendon la pelle;
e èci d'ogni ben chiuso le strade.

S' i' ebbi ma' voglia a posseder tesauro,
per ciò che qua opera da me è partita,
può quel nel manto che Medusa in Mauro.

Ma se alto in cielo è povertà gradita,
qual fia di nostro stato  il gran restauro,
s' un altro segno amorza l'altra vita?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 10

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "On Rome in the Pontificate of Julius II", appears in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , subtitle: "Iš taurių lieja čia kardus ir šalmus", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Caroline Diehl

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 109

[No title]
 (Sung text for setting by D. Shostakovich)
 Matches base text
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Italian (Italiano) 
Здесь делают из чаш мечи и шлемы
И кровь Христову продают на вес;
На щит здесь терн, на копью крест исчез, –
Уста ж Христовы терпеливо немы.

Пусть Он не сходит в наши Вифлеемы
Иль снова брызнет кровью до небес,
Затем, что душегубам Рим – что лес,
И милосердье держим на замке мы.

Мне не грозят роскошества обузы,
Ведь для меня давно уж нет здесь дел;
Я Мантии страшусь, как Мавр – Медузы;

Но если Бедность славой Бог одел,
Какие ж нам тогда готовит узы
Под знаменем иным иной удел?

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Composition:

    Set to music by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), no title, op. 145 no. 5 (1974), from Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, no. 5, also set in Italian (Italiano)

Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954)

Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 10
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Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 90

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