Pensa a serbarmi, oh cara,
i dolci affetti tuoi;
amami, oh cara,
e lascia poi ogn’altra cura a me, cara!
Tu mi vuoi dir col pianto,
che resti in abbandono;
nò, così vil non sono,
[e meco ingrato tanto
Cesare non è.]1

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¹ Jommelli: "e meco irato tanto / il fato non è."

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1728, appears in Ezio [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Pensa a serbarmi, o cara", HWV 29 (1732), first performed 1732, from opera Ezio, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Pensa a serbarmi, o cara", 1755, first performed 1755 [ 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Pensa a serbarmi, o cara" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Marianna Martines (1744 - 1812), "Pensa a serbami" [ soprano and orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Pensa a serbarmi, o cara", 2017, copyright © 2017 [ tenor or soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Think only of preserving for me, my dearest", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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