by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Mi sento il cor traffigere
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Available translation(s): ENG
Mi sento il cor trafiggere, presso a morir son io, e non conosco, o dio, chi mi traffige il cor. Non so dove mi volgere, in vano i numi invoco, e il duol a poco degenera in furor!
Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1756, appears in La Nitteti, first published 1756 [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 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Mi sento il cor traffigere" [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Michael Berridge) , "I feel my heart pierced", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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