A voice has struck me | A voice has struck me

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by Giuseppe Maria Foppa (1760 - 1845)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Una voce m’ha colpito

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Una voce m’ha colpito
dalla cima sino al fondo,
e se un poco mi confondo
mi dovete perdonar.

(Nel fissarle gli occhi addosso
di veder già lei mi pare
che soletta e abbandonata
ho lasciato in preda al mare.
Mi si scalda omai la testa,
freme intorno la tempesta,
e il timor ed il sospetto
or mi fanno vacillar.)

È un casetto… un romanzetto…
sono cose da risate…
cara figlia, perdonate,
or di più non so spiegar.

Text Authorship:

by Giuseppe Maria Foppa (1760 - 1845) [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), "Una voce m’ha colpito", from the opera L'inganno felice, no. 3. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "A voice has struck me", 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: 2018-05-25
Line count: 16
Word count: 77

A voice has struck me

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

A voice has struck me
from top to bottom:
and I hope you will pardon me
if I am a bit confused.

(When I fix my eyes upon her person,
she already seems to me
to resemble that girl that,
alone and abandoned,
I left to the mercy of the sea.
My head burns up,
and a storm rages inside me.
And fear and suspicion cause
my senses to falter.)

It's a coincidence... it's worthy of a romance...
We'll laugh about this eventually.
My dear child, forgive me,
I cannot explain this further.

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giuseppe Maria Foppa (1760 - 1845)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-20
Line count: 17
Word count: 93