To hear occasionally | To hear occasionally the name of the place

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by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

L'udir talvolta

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE

L'udir talvolta nominare il loco
Dove dimori, o talvolta vedere
Chi di là venga, mi riaccende il fuoco
Nel cor mancato per troppo dolere.
E par ch'io senta alcun nascoso gioco
Nell'anima legata dal piacere,
E meco dico: quindi venissi io
Onde quel viene, o dolce mio disio!...

Text Authorship:

by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) [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 Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936), "L'udir talvolta", P 71 no. 1 (1906), from Cinque Canti All'antica, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "To hear occasionally", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Parfois entendre", copyright © 2015, (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: 8
Word count: 48

To hear occasionally

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

To hear occasionally the name of the place
Where you are staying, or sometimes see
Who is there, this fans the flames
Of a heart [that has] stopped from too much pain.
And I seem to sense some hidden game	
Of a soul bound by pleasure,
And I say to myself: from there I come
[Like] arriving waves, O my sweet love!

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 62