by Pietro Pagello (1807 - 1898)
Translation © by Effimia Gianniou

Sopra l'acqua indormenzada
Language: Italian - Venetian (dialect) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE GRE SPA
Coi pensieri malinconici
No te star a tormentar:
Vien con mi, montemo in gondola,
Andaremo fora in mar.
Passaremo i porti e l'isole
Che circonda la cità:
El sol more senza nuvole
E la luna spuntarà.

Oh! che festa, oh! che spetacolo,
Che presenta sta laguna,
Quando tuto xe silenzio,
Quando sluse in ciel la luna;
E spandendo i cavei morbidi
Sopra l'acqua indormenzada,
La se specia, la se cocola,
Come dona inamorada!

Tira zo quel velo e scòndite,
Che la vedo comparir!
Se l'ariva a descoverzarte,
La se pol ingelosir!
Sta baveta, che te zogola
Fra i caveli imbovolai,
No xe turbia de la polvere
De le rode e dei cavai. Vien!

Se in conchigli ai Greci Venere
Se sognava un altro di,
Forse visto i aveva in gondola
Una zogia come ti,
Ti xe bela, ti xe zovene,
Ti xe fresca come un fior;
Vien per tuti le so lagreme;
Ridi adesso e fa l'amor!

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Above the sleeping water", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "Sur l'eau endormie", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) (Effimia Gianniou) , "Πάνω στο νερό που ησυχάζει", 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


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 32
Word count: 157

Panō sto nero pu ēsychazei
Language: Greek (Ελληνικά)  after the Italian - Venetian (dialect) 
Mēn basanizesai
Apo skepseis melancholikes
Ela mazi mu, as anebume stēn gondola,
Tha bgoyme stēn thalassa.
Tha perasume ta limania kai ta nēsia
Pu peristoichizun tēn polē:
O ēlios dyei chōris synnepho,
Kai to phengari tha phanei.

Ō! ti giortē, ō! ti theama
Parusiazei ē limnothalassa,
Otan ola siōpoyn,
Otan to phengari lampei ston urano·
Kai aplōnontas ta metaxenia tu mallia
Panō sto nero pu ēsychazei,
Koitazetai ston kathrephtē kai phtiachnetai,
San erōteumenē gynaika!

Rixe auto to peplo kai krypsu,
Tēn blepō na erchetai!
An s’ anakalypsei
Mporei na zēlepsei!
Auto to aeraki pu chaideyei
Ta sgura su ta mallia
Den tholōnetai apo tēn skonē
Tōn trochōn kai tōn alogōn. Ela!

Opōs apo ena kochyli ē Aphroditē 
Stus Ellēnes emphanizotan kapote,
Etsi isōs eidan kai se mia gondola
Ena kosmēma san ki esena,
Eisai omorphē, eisai nea,
Eisai droserē san ena luloydi·
Ela, gia ola ta dakrya pu echeis rixei·
Gela tōra kai zēse ton erōta!

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  • Translation from Italian - Venetian (dialect) to Greek (Ελληνικά) copyright © 2014 by Effimia Gianniou, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.

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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-13
Line count: 32
Word count: 156