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Tu sa, ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai Ch'i [veni]1 per goderti più da presso; E sai ch'i' so, che tu sa' c'i' son desso: A che più indugio a salutarci omai? Se vera è la speranza che mi dai, Se vero è 'l [buon]2 desio che m'è concesso, Rompasi il mur fra l'uno e l'altro messo; Chè doppia forza hann' i celati guai. S'i' amo sol di te, signor mie caro, Quel che di te più ami, non ti sdegni; Che l'un dell'altro spirto s'innamora, Quel che nel tuo bel volto bramo e 'mparo, E mal compres' è degli umani ingegni, Chi 'l vuol [veder]3, convien che prima mora.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 K. Sorabji: "vengo"
2 K. Sorabji: "gran"
3 K. Sorabji: "saper"
Authorship
- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 60 [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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Sonetto LV", op. 22 no. 4, from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, no. 4, also set in Russian (Русский) [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Tu sa, ch'io so, signor mie, che tu sai", KSS 36 no. 1 (1923), published 2005, first performed 1980 [ voice and orchestra ], from Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti, no. 1, Bath: The Sorabji Archive, critical edition [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Carl Johengen) , "Sonnet LV", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John Addington Symonds) , "Love's entreaty", appears in The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella now for the first time translated into rhymed English, first published 1878
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "You know that I know, my lord, that you know", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Sonnet LV", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 111
You know that I know, my lord, that you know That I come to have the pleasure of you closer to hand, And you know that I know that you know who I am: What purpose then in continuing not to acknowledge each other, even now? If the hope that you give me is real, If the great desire that has been granted me is real, May the wall that has risen up between the one and the other be broken down, Since concealed woes have a double force. If I love in you, my dear lord, Only that which you love most in yourself, do not be scornful, Since it is simply the one spirit loving the other. What I long for and find in your fair countenance, And what is misunderstood by mundane intellects, Is that whosoever wishes to know this must first die.
Confirmed with an original Microsoft Word Document provided by Alistair Hinton.
Authorship
- by Charles Hopkins (1952 - 2007), "You know that I know, my lord, that you know", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 60
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 146