Benedetto sia 'l giorno, e 'l mese, e l'anno,
E la stagione, e 'l tempo, e l'ora, e 'l punto
E 'l bel paese e 'l loco, ov'io fui giunto
Da'duo begli occhi che legato m'ànno;

E benedetto il primo dolce affanno
Ch'i' ebbi ad esser con Amor congiunto,
E l'arco e la saette ond' i' fui punto,
E le piaghe, ch'infino al cor mi vanno.

Benedette le voci tante, ch'io
Chiamando il nome di Laura ho sparte,
E i sospiri e le lagrime e 'l desio.

E benedette sian tutte le carte
Ov'io fama le acquisto, e il pensier mio,
Ch'è sol di lei, si ch'altra non v'ha parte.

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Note: sometimes erroneously listed as Sonnet 47.

Text Authorship:

• by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 1. Rime In vita di Madonna Laura, no. 61 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Andrew Ager (b. 1962), "Benedetto sia il giorno", 2012 [ voice and piano ], from Italian Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erik Bergman (1911 - 2006), "Benedetto sia 'l giorno", op. 118 no. 2 (1991) [ baritone and chorus ], from Petrarca-sarja / Petrarca-Suite, 4 sonetti fra "Il Canzoniere" di Francesco Petrarca, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Benedetto sia 'l giorno e 'l mese e l'anno", op. 74a (Due sonetti del Petrarca) no. 2 (1933), published 1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Norman Dello Joio (1913 - 2008), "Un sonetto di Petrarca" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Benedetto sia 'l giorno", S. 270a no. 2 (1843-6), published 1846 [ tenor and piano ], from Tre sonetti di Petrarca, no. 2, Haslinger, Vienna, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926) , "Sonnet de Pétrarque" ; composed by Émile Paladilhe.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874) ; composed by Franz Liszt.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Egon Joseph Wellesz.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) ; composed by Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by E. Solonovich ; composed by Boris Alexandrovich Arapov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Francisque Reynard) , "Sonnet XXXIX"
• LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Wilson Hidalgo) , "Bendito sea el día", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 110