Expect nothing from me | Expect nothing from me

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by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Nulla sperar da me

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Nulla sperar da me  
anima senza fé
cor traditore.

Fasto, che t'abbagliò
perché non t'additò
cotanto orrore.

Text Authorship:

by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710) [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), "Nulla sperar da me", HWV 6 no. 23, first performed 1709, from opera Agrippina, no. 23 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Expect nothing from me", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-13
Line count: 6
Word count: 17

Expect nothing from me

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Expect nothing from me,
you faithless soul,
you traitorous heart.

The horrors of pomp have clearly bewitched you,
for I have not pointed out the extent
of their baseness and horror.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Vincenzo Grimani (1655? - 1710)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 31