I am not your father | I am not your father

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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Non ti son padre

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Chosen for Diff

Non ti son padre,  
non mi sei figlio,
pietà non sento
d'un traditor.

Tu sei cagione
del tuo periglio,
tu sei tormento
del genitor.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, 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), "Non ti son padre", HelN 78 no. 8 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, tenor voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "I am not your father", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I am not your father

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Chosen for Diff

I am not your father,
you are not my son.
For traitors I feel
not a shred of pity.

You are the cause
of your own predicament,
and likewise the torment
of your progenitor.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse
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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 34