Be silent: let my will suffice | Be silent: let my will suffice

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by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Taci, lo voglio, e basti

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Taci, lo voglio, e basti;  
meglio il dover consiglia:
mostrami in te la figlia
degna del genitor.
Di un passeggero orgoglio
perdono in te l'eccesso;
ti dica questo amplesso,
che mi sei cara ancor.

(si sentono da lungi squillar le trombe)	
 
Ma già le trombe squillano!
Giunge Rodrigo! Oh sorte!
Io ti precedo: seguimi,
ed offri al prode, al forte
in puro omaggio il cor.

Di quelle trombe al suono
ah! Ridestar mi sento
nel core, di forze spento,
l'usato mio valor.

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), "Taci, lo voglio, e basti", 1819, first performed 1819, from the opera La donna del lago, no. 4. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Be silent: let my will suffice", 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: 2018-05-16
Line count: 18
Word count: 82

Be silent: let my will suffice

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Be silent: let my will suffice;
better that duty should guide you:
show yourself to me as a daughter 
becoming her sire.
I pardon in you 
a fleeting outburst of pride;
may this embrace show you
how dear you are to me still.

(trumpets in the distance)

But now the trumpets sound!
Rodrigo has arrived! O fortune!
I shall precede you: follow close behind,
and offer to that brave warrior
your heart in true homage.
At the sound of those trumpets,
I feel in my heart
the reawakening of my accustomed valor,
previously sapped of its vigor.

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Based on:

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
Line count: 18
Word count: 97