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by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Tu di ceppi mi aggravi la mano?

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Tu di ceppi mi aggravi la mano?  
Mi minacci di morte funesta?
Ma non sai, che non tanto è lontano
a colpirti lo sdegno del ciel.

Tra gli affanni, tra i fieri tormenti
troppo tardi l'error piangerai,
e pietade, ma invan chiederai,
che non merta chi tanto è infedel.

Text Authorship:

by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831) [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 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Tu di ceppi mi aggravi la mano?", 1818, first performed 1818, from the opera Mosé in Egitto, no. 12. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "You oppress my limbs with chains?", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 49

You oppress my limbs with chains?

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

You oppress my limbs with chains?
You dare to threaten me with fearsome death?
Surely you do not know that Heaven's rage
will strike you down imminently!

Amidst cruel torments and great suffering
you will regret your error too late,
but he who has broken his word
does not deserve mercy
and pleads for it in vain.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
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Word count: 57