Che sia la gelosia
Language: Italian (Italiano)
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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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "True, that jealousy is like ice", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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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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