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

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE
Son fra l'onde in mezzo al mare,
E al furor di doppio vento;
Or resisto, or mi sgomento
Fra la speme, e fra l'orror.

Per la fe, per la tua vita
Or pavento, or sono ardita,
E ritrovo egual martire
Nell' ardire e nel timor.

The text appears in "Gli Orti Esperidi", parte I, Aria di Venere.

Composition:

    Set to music by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Son fra l'onde", D 78 (1813), published 1895 [ soprano and piano ]

Text Authorship:

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Estic entre les onades", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Gary D. Cannon) , "I am among the waves", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Je suis parmi les vagues", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45