LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,059)
  • Text Authors (19,353)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,112)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374)

Soleasi nel mio cor star bella e viva
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Soleasi nel mio cor star bella e viva
com'alta donna in loco umile e basso;
or son fatto io per l'ultimo suo passo,
non pur mortal, ma morto, et ella è diva.

L'alma d'ogni suo ben spogliata e priva.
Amor de la sua luce ignudo e casso
devria de la pietà romper un sasso;
ma non è chi lor duol riconti, o scriva:

che piangon dentro, ov'ogni orecchia è sorda,
se non la mia, cui tanta doglia ingombra,
ch'altro che sospirar nulla m'avanza.

Veramente siam noi polvere et ombra;
veramente la voglia cieca e 'ngorda;
veramente fallace è la speranza.

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 294 [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 Akos Banlaky (b. 1966), "Soleasi nel mio cor star bella e viva", 2001, first performed 2003 [ baritone, violin, violoncello, and piano ], from Liedphantasie no. 2, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Soleasi nel mio cor" [sung text checked 1 time]

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


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 100

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris