That wicked, treacherous wretch | That wicked, treacherous wretch

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

L'empio sleale indegno

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

L'empio sleale indegno
vorria rapirmi il regno,
e disturbar così
la pace mia.

Ma perda pur la vita
prima che in me tradita
dall'avido suo cor
la fede sia.

Text Authorship:

by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730) [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "L'empio sleale indegno", HWV 17 (1724), first performed 1724, from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, no. 7. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "That wicked, treacherous wretch", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 29

That wicked, treacherous wretch

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

That wicked, treacherous wretch
would seek to rob me
of my kingdom,
so as to disturb my repose.

Let him perish, then,
before he and his covetous heart
should make me
an example of betrayed faith.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 36