by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Io lo so, che il bel sembiante 
Un istante, oh Dio! mirai, 
E mai più da quell'istante 
Non lasciai di sospirar.

Io lo so; lo sanno queste
Valli ombrose, ermo foreste
Che han da me quel nome amato 
Imparato a replicar.

Note: Excerpted from "Il consiglio", Cantata VI.

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

  • ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Johann Christoph Grünbaum)


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
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