Give me back my dear friend | Give me back my dear friend

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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Rendimi il caro amico

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Rendimi il caro amico,
parte dell’alma mia,
fa’ ch’innocente sia
come l’amai finor.
 
Compagni dalla cuna
tu ci vedesti e sai
che in ogni mia fortuna
seco finor provai
ogni piacer diviso,
diviso ogni dolor.

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Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Artaserse [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 Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Rendimi il caro amico", HelN 78 no. 12 (1730), first performed 1730 [ trumpet, 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Give me back my dear friend", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-21
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Give me back my dear friend

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Give me back my dear friend,
part of my very soul!
As I have loved him for his innocence,
make him as innocent as has ever been!

Companions from the cradle,
you have seen us and know
that in any enterprise of mine,
I have ever attempted it
with all pleasure and all pain
divided equally between us.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Artaserse
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-16
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Word count: 58