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Deh! bella e cara e sí soave un tempo cagion del viver mio, mentre a Dio piacque, volgi una volta, volgi quelle stelle amorose, come le vidi mai, cosí tranquille e piene di pietà, prima ch'i' moia, ché 'l morir mi sia dolce. E dritto è ben che, se mi fûro un tempo dolci segni di vita, or sien di morte que' begli occhi amorosi; e quel soave sguardo, che mi scorse ad amare, mi scorga anco a morire; e chi fu l'alba mia, del mio cadente dí l'espero or sia.
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- by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 332-346 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), "Deh! bella e cara e sí soave un tempo", published 1605 [ vocal quintet], from Libro V de madrigali, no. 10, madrigal [text verified 1 time]
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- SPA Spanish (Español) (Javier Pablo Sotelo) , title 1: "¡Ah! Bella amada, tan suave en otro tiempo", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Ah ! belle et chère et si douce un temps", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Alberto Pedrotti
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:31
Line count: 15
Word count: 91
¡Ah! Bella amada, tan suave en otro tiempo razón de mi vivir, mientras a Dios agradó, vuelve por una vez, vuelve a mí esas estrellas amorosas, como nunca las vi, así tranquilas y llenas de piedad, antes de que yo muera, para que el morir me sea dulce. Y es justo que, si alguna vez fueron para mí dulces señales de vida, ahora lo sean en mi muerte esos bellos ojos amorosos; y esa suave mirada que me divisara en el amor, me divise también en la muerte; y anhelo que quien fuera mi alborada sea ahora mi atardecer.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2015 by Javier Pablo Sotelo, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538 - 1612), appears in Il Pastor Fido, Act III, Scene 3, lines 332-346
Text added to the website: 2015-04-09 00:00:00
Last modified: 2015-04-09 23:12:28
Line count: 15
Word count: 99