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

Dal ciel discesce, e col mortal suo, poi
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT LIT
Dal ciel discesce, e col mortal suo, poi
che visto ebbe l'inferno giusto e 'l pio,
ritornò vivo a còntemplare Dio,
per dar di tutto il vero lume a noi:

Lucente stella, che co' raggi suoi
fe chiaro, a torto, el nido ove naqqu' io;
nè sare 'l premio tutto 'l mondo rio:
Tu sol, che la creasti, esser quel puoi.

Di Dante dico, che mal conosciute
fur l'opre suo da quel popolo ingrato,
che solo a' iusti manca di salute.

Fuss' io pur lui! C'a tal fortuna nato,
per l'aspro esilio suo, son la virtute,
dare' del mondo il più felice stato.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 248

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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
  • FRE French (Français) (Ernest Lafond) (Edmond Lafond) , "Rime no. 248", appears in Dante, Pétrarque, Michel-Ange, Tasse, Sonnets choisis, first published 1848
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bettina Jacobson) , "Dante", from Michelangelo: Gedichte und Briefe, first published 1907
  • LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , subtitle: "Nužengęs iš dangaus, mirtingu kūnu", 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: 103

[No title]
 (Sung text for setting by D. Shostakovich)
 Matches base text
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Italian (Italiano) 
Спустившись с неба, в тленной плоти, он
Увидел ад, обитель искупленья,
И жив предстал для божья лицезренья,
И нам поведал все, чем умудрен.

Лучистая звезда, чьим озарен
Сияньем край, мне данный для рожденья, -
Ей не от мира ждать вознагражденья,
Но от тебя, кем мир был сотворен.

Я говорю о Данте: не нужны
Озлобленной толпе его созданья, -
Ведь для нее и высший гений мал.

Будь я, как он! О, будь мне суждены
Его дела и скорбь его изгнанья, -
Я б лучшей доли в мире не желал!

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Composition:

    Set to music by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), no title, op. 145 no. 6 (1974), from Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, no. 6, also set in Italian (Italiano)

Text Authorship:

  • by Abram Markovich Efros (1888 - 1954)

Based on:

  • a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 248
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Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 85

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