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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Non posso altra figura immaginarmi
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Non posso altra figura immaginarmi
o di nud'ombra o di terrestre spoglia,
col più alto pensier, tal che mie voglia
contra la tuo beltà di quella s'armi.

Ché da te mosso, tanto scender parmi,
c'Amor d'ogni valor mi priva e spoglia,
ond'a pensar di minuir mie doglia,
duplicando, la morte viene a darmi.

Però non val che più sproni mie fuga,
doppiando 'l corso alla beltà nemica,
ché 'l men dal più veloce non si scosta.

Amor con le sue man gli occhi m'asciuga,
promettendomi cara ogni fatica;
ché vile esser non può chi tanto costa.

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•   J. Kvandal 

J. Kvandal sets lines 12-14

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Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 82 [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 Johan Kvandal (1919 - 1999), "Non posso altra figura immaginarmi", op. 49 no. 2, lines 12-14, from Michelangelo-Poem, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "No Escape from Love", appears in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 96

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