True, that jealousy is like ice (Trapassi) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Che sia la gelosia

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Che sia la gelosia
un gielo in mezzo al foco,
è ver, ma questo è poco.
È il più crudel tormento
d’un cor che s’innamora,
e questo è poco ancora.
Io nel mio cor lo sento
ma non lo so spiegar.
 
Se non portasse amore
affanno sì tiranno
qual è quel rozzo core
che non vorrebbe amar.

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Catone in Utica [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "True, that jealousy is like ice", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 57

True, that jealousy is like ice

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

True, that jealousy is like ice
in the midst of fire:
but that is little indeed.
It is the cruelest torment
which could ever beset a loving heart,
but that, too, is little.
I feel it in my heart,
but I know not how to explain it.

If love did not carry with it
suffering so tyrannical,
what a rough heart it must be
which would not want to love.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Catone in Utica

This text was added to the website: 2018-06-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 70