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Quell’amplesso e quel perdono, quello sguardo e quel sospiro fa più giusto il mio martiro, più colpevole mi fa. Qual mi fosti e qual ti sono chiaro intende il core afflitto, che misura il suo delitto dall’istessa tua pietà.
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- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Adriano in Siria [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- by Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), "Quell’amplesso e quel perdono", 1732, first performed 1732, from opera Adriano in Siria [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "That embrace, that pardon", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Text added to the website: 2018-06-14 00:00:00
Last modified: 2018-06-14 13:35:19
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Word count: 39
That embrace, that pardon, that glance, and that sigh: they make my suffering more justified, and my guilt that more acute. How you were to me, how I am to you, my afflicted heart understands clearly. It measures its own sin in terms of its own self-pity.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Adriano in Siria
Text added to the website: 2020-01-02 00:00:00
Last modified: 2020-01-02 12:24:55
Line count: 8
Word count: 47