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Disse il ver? parlò per gioco? Mi confondo a' detti sui e comincio a poco a poco di me stesso a dubitar. Pianger fanno i pianti altrui, sospirar gli altrui sospiri; ben potrian gli altrui deliri insegnarmi a delirar.
Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Achille in Sciro [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 Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), "Disse il ver? parlò per gioco?", 1736, from the opera Achille in Sciro [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Disse il ver? parlò per gioco?", 2016, copyright © 2016. [tenor voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Did she speak the truth? Was she joking?", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 39
Did she speak the truth? Was she joking? What she has said confuses me, and I slowly begin to doubt even myself. The weeping of others surely causes me to shed tears, and others' sighs cause me to sigh; so indeed others' delirium may well show me as well how to go insane.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2018 by Andrew Schneider, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Achille in Sciro
This text was added to the website: 2018-06-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 53