Ah, it is not I who am talking

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Ah non son io che parlo

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Ah non son io che parlo,
è il barbaro dolore
che mi divide il core,
che delirar mi fa.
 
Non cura il ciel tiranno
l’affanno in cui mi vedo.
Un fulmine gli chiedo
e un fulmine non ha.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio [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 Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720 - 1795), "Ah non son io che parlo", 1747-1753 [ voice and strings and double bass ], from 12 arie, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Italian (Italiano), adapted by Giuseppe Palomba (flourished 1769-1825) , no title [an adaptation] ; composed by Valentino Fioravanti.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , 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: 2018-07-23
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Word count: 38

Ah, it is not I who am talking

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Ah, it is not I who am talking,
but rather this fierce pain
which rends my heart asunder
and which causes me to lose my senses.

Cruel heaven cannot cure this suffering
which I see myself enduring.
Though I ask for lightning
to strike me down,
heaven has no such bolts.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-05
Line count: 9
Word count: 51